2024 Greece Tour: Experiencing the Olympian Gods
The Omphalos, or Navel of the World, at Delphi. Photo J Holley
Logistical Info
Detailed Itinerary
Hotel List
Participation Agreements
Frequently Asked Questions/Things to Bring - includes simcard info, directions from airport, and so on
Email for Irene Komatseli, our on-the-ground agent
Recording of Virtual Pre-Meet passcode: bT&IJQR8
Travel Insurance
Allianz - recommended by Irene our Greece on-the-ground agent
World Nomads - used by Jason living around the world for a few years
Pre-Reading Suggestions
All reading is optional. Often the best way to prepare is simply to contemplate your own dreams, journal, sketch fantasies, and prepare your body with care.
Read or Listen to the Myths Themselves
For those who would like to read, my best suggestion is to read or listen to translations of the Homeric epics, Homeric Hymns, plays by Aeschylus, Euripides. Especially listening to these and being read to can be a lovely way in. My suggested translations:
Homer Iliad or Odyssey — Robert Fagles
Homeric Hymns — No preferred translation
Metamorphoses by Ovid (Roman but tells our stories beautifully) — Mandelbaum
The Olympian Gods
Brian Clark, has written seven lovely essays on the Olympians, which he makes available on his mythology page at Astrosynthesis — just scroll down a bit and you will see the essays on each of the archetypal pairs beginning with “The Olympians: Hera and Zeus” and continuing through to "The Olympians: Poseidon and Hades”, also including our tutelary deities “The Olympians: Hestia and Hermes”.
Specific Sites we Will Visit:
Brauron - a piece by Emily Wilson, recently the first woman translator of the Odyssey and the Iliad published by a major publishing house
Delphi - a compilation of famous visits to the Oracle
Epidavros - a lecture by Guenter B. Risse on the Healing Cult of Asclepius