Monthly Archives: November 2008

No field trip this week — as it is Thanksgiving Break. Many students have gone traveling — Athens, Rome, Turkey, Sicel sites in Italy — depending on taste! Next week Taormina…… Continue reading →

Today we visited Eurialo, the great fort outside of Syracuse, probably built initially by Dionysius I as part of his strategy to enclose the whole ridge with a wall in order to prevent an attacker occupying the ridge and… Continue reading →

On Friday 14th we went to Morgantina, a Sicel settlement in inland Sicily — we had moved the day forward about 2 weeks to avoid bad weather, but in the event, it was another glorious day. More pictures of the… Continue reading →

On Sunday those who wanted to took a trip to Catania's Serie A team. Their opponents were Cagliari, Sardinia, who lay 3 points behind them in the table. Catania had started well, but had recently begun its familiar slide… Continue reading →

On Friday, as part of a larger examination of the politics of theater in both Athens and Syracuse, we visited the impressive theater in Syracuse. Most of the visible remains date from the renovations of Hieron II in the… Continue reading →

On Sunday, we were all lucky enough to be invited to the house of the excellent parents of our excellent Italian instructor, Rocco. The house was just outside Lentini, the site of the early Chalcidian colony of Leontini — not… Continue reading →