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The Great Tours:
Greece and Turkey,
from Athens to Istanbul
Course Guidebook
Professor John R. Hale
University of Louisville
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John R. Hale, Ph.D.
Director of Liberal Studies
University of Louisville
rofessor John R. Hale, Director of Liberal
Studies at the University of Louisville, is an
archaeologist with eldwork and research
experience at sites in Greece, Turkey, England,
Scandinavia, Portugal, Italy, Jordan, Guatemala,
and the Ohio River Valley. Archaeology has been
the focus of Professor Hale’s career, and he has led
student and adult tours to many of the sites he has worked on or studied,
especially in Greece and Turkey. At the University of Louisville, Professor
Hale teaches introductory courses on archaeology and specialized courses
on the Bronze Age, the ancient Greeks, the Roman world, Celtic cultures,
Vikings, and nautical and underwater archaeology.
During more than 30 years of archaeological work, Professor Hale has
excavated at a Romano-British town in Lincolnshire, England, as well as at
a Roman villa in Portugal; has carried out interdisciplinary studies of ancient
oracle sites in Greece and Turkey, including the famed Delphic oracle; and
has participated in an undersea search in Greek waters for lost eets from
the Greek and Persian wars. In addition, Professor Hale is a member of a
scienti c team developing and re ning a method for dating mortar, concrete,
and plaster from ancient buildings—a method that employs radiocarbon
analysis with an accelerator mass spectrometer.
Professor Hale completed his undergraduate studies at Yale and received
his Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge. The subject of his dissertation
was the Bronze Age ancestry of the Viking longship, a study that involved
eld surveys of ship designs in prehistoric rock art in southern Norway and
Sweden. His work has been published in
Scienti c American, Antiquity,
Journal of Roman Archaeology,
and
The Classical Bulletin.
Most of
Professor Hale’s work is interdisciplinary and involves collaborations with
geologists, chemists, nuclear physicists, historians, zoologists, botanists,
physical anthropologists, geographers, and art historians. His most recent
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P
book is
Lords of the Sea: The Epic Story of the Athenian Navy and the Birth
of Democracy,
published in 2009.
As a national lecturer for the Archaeological Institute of America, Professor
Hale presents lectures in many cities throughout the United States and
Canada, and he has also made lecture tours to South Africa, Finland,
Australia, and New Zealand. He has received numerous awards for his
distinguished teaching, including the Panhellenic Teacher of the Year Award
and the Delphi Center Award.
Professor Hale is the instructor of four other Great Courses:
Exploring the
Roots of Religion, The Greek and Persian Wars, Classical Archaeology of
Ancient Greece and Rome,
and
The Art of Public Speaking: Lessons from the
Greatest Speeches in History.
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION
Professor Biography ............................................................................i
Course Scope .....................................................................................1
LECTURE GUIDES
LECTURE 1
Touring the Cradle of Western Civilization..........................................3
LECTURE 2
Athens—Around the Acropolis and Parthenon ...................................9
LECTURE 3
In the Footsteps of Socrates—Historic Athens .................................15
LECTURE 4
Around Attica—Temples and Mysteries ............................................22
LECTURE 5
Seeking the Good Life—Corinth to Epidauros..................................27
LECTURE 6
Mycenae—Where Kings Planned the Trojan War ............................31
LECTURE 7
Around Nafplio—Greek History at a Glance .....................................37
LECTURE 8
Ancient Olympia—Gods, Games, and Temples ...............................43
LECTURE 9
Quest for Wisdom at Apollo’s Oracle—Delphi ..................................48
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