Omicron Group SOCI 499 Cyber Page

C O U R S E I N F O R M A T I O N

Welcome to the Omicron Group Project, the official cyber page companion to the SOCI 499 travel and study in Greece course-for- credit offered by the Department of Social Sciences in cooperation with the Center for International Programs and Activities (CIPA).

Taught by SSU professor Dr. Stylianos Hadjiyannis, shadjiyannis@shawnee.edu, this course aims to expose SSU students to Greece's culture(s), history, and artistic expressions; expand their horizons through travel; and enable them to think globally.

T R I P C O S T -- Below you will find the air and land package rates combined. In the past my groups averaged 30 persons and hopefully we will have that many this year in order to take advantage of the cheaper rate. If you are flying from other parts of the US or other nations and would need only the land package please let me know and I will forward to you its cost. You must make your own flight arrangements. I can help you in doing so if you let me know.

The rates are:	25-29 people	30 or more people
Per person in triple	$1990	$1930
Per person in double	$2090	$2030

Above rates include:

Flights from Cincinnati to Athens via Paris and return
Transfers airport/hotel/airport in Athens
4 overnights at B class hotel "Astor" in Athens
3 overnights at A class hotel "King Minos" in Tolo
1 overnight at A class hotel "Europa" in Olympia
1 overnight at B class hotel "Fedriades" in Delphi
Breakfast daily
Three dinners at hotel "King Minos"
Half day Athens sightseeing tour
Afternoon tour to Cape Sounion/Temple of Poseidon with stop for dinner on the way back to Athens (dinner is not included)
6-day, 5-night intercity tour
Full-time use of our own air-conditioned motor coach for 7 days
Our own English speaking guide during the tours
Tips for coach driver and tour guide
Transportation/handling of 1 suitcase and 1 handbag per person
Airport taxes

Click here for trip itinerary, payment plans, and procedures on how to join

Please check with the Office of Financial Aid for information/arrangements regarding this class in relation to your financial aid package.

The SSU Center for International Programs and Activities (CIPA) has generously offered us a $2,000 grant to help defray a part of your cost. All students enrolled in this class will share this pool of money equally. In the event that there are less than 10 students then no student will receive more than $200 from this grant. The money will be credited to your current account with SSU’s Bursar Office. You will be informed if there is more money or other grants available.

I N S E A R C H O F . . .

Ιθακη

Σα βγεις στον πηγαιμο για την Ιθακη να ευχεσαι ναναι μακρυς ο δρομος, γεματος περιπετειες, γεματος γνωσεις......

Ithaca

When you embark on your journey to Ithaca, pray that the road is long, full of adventures, full of knowledge......

Poem by
Konstantinos Kavafis

. . . E T E R N A L M E M O R I A L S A N D W O N D E R S

“Among all the peoples of the ancient world, the one whose culture most clearly exemplified the spirit of Western society was the Greek or Hellenic. No other Western people had so strong a devotion to freedom or so firm a belief in the nobility of human achievement. The Greeks glorified humanity as the most important creation in the universe and refused to submit to the dictates of priests or despots. The Greek view of the world was predominantly secular and rationalistic; it exalted the spirit of free inquiry and preferred knowledge to faith. With only a limited cultural inheritance from the past upon which to build, the Greeks produced intellectual and artistic monuments that have served ever since as standards of achievement. “Wonders are many on earth, and the greatest of these are humans,” the Greek tragic poet Sophocles proposed, to which we might well respond, “wonders were many in the ancient West, and the greatest of these were the Greeks.” (Page 87) in Lerner E. Robert, Meacham, Standish, and McNall Burns, Edward, 1998 Western Civilizations Volume 1, 13^th edition, WWNorton & Company, New York

“And we shall assuredly not be without witnesses; there are mighty monuments of our power which will make us the wonder of this and of succeeding ages; we shall not need the praises of Homer or of any other whose poetry will please for the moment, but whose reconstruction of the facts the truth will damage. For we have compelled every land and sea to open a path to our daring and have everywhere planted eternal memorials of our triumphs and misfortunes.” Quoted in the Funeral Oration by the Athenian leader Pericles to honor those Athenians who fell in battle during the first year of the Peloponnesian Wars (431-404 BC). (Page 139) in Brophy, James M., Epstein, Steven, Nilan, Cat, Robertson, John, and Safley, Thomas Max, 1998, Perspectives from the Past: Primary Sources in Western Civilizations Volume 1, WWNorton & Company, New York