Primary Source Assignment? C’mon, the semester is over!
Fear not…I meant Public Service Announcement – especially for the travel minded. Regular readers know that I led a combined group of Armitage fans and university related peeps to Greece in September. Just a few weeks after I returned, my Greek travel agent and foodie extraordinaire George sent me an invitation that I am pleased to share with all of you..
A 21 Day “Grand Tour” of Greece….all over the mainland and the islands. Depending on what the next six months bring, I may or may not be going along as a guide on this trip, but whether I am there or not, I can say without reservation that George will provide an incredible tour experience. If you take a look and are interested, drop me a note and I will put you directly in touch with George.
We now return to our original programming: 3….2….1
Ancient Armitage 
And friend him on Facebook — the pictures of Gk food that he posts are amazing. https://www.facebook.com/george.portokalakis
I’ve noticed that he’s been photo crediting a certain Armitage blogger’s very own tall, dark and handsome for several of those shots….
Oh, yep! Not that I care but those were probably mostly my shots. Hubby was too busy gobbling to break for photos…. =)
I wondered about that…I didn’t remember him taking a lot of plate shots 🙂
Yes which is why some of the shots already have forks on the plates and food partially missing. I wasn’t fast enough.
LOL…I always meant to get a shot of dishes, but by lunch time, I was usually really hungry and forgot 😱
And no, I can’t read that in the original 😦
“Thucydides the Athenian here writes of the war between the Peloponnesians and Athenians….” Yeah, without a dictionary, that’s all I’ve got!
LOL. Better in translation 🙂
I never really achieved sight reading in ancient Greek…
I have a lot of respect for people who can do it. Ex-SO could read Koine. I stuck it out three weeks in Classical Greek I and gave up.
So many declensions, voices and moods!!
I honestly don’t think that class should be taught in “graduate reading knowledge” format. I was OK in Graduate Reading Knowledge of Latin b/c I had the Roman alphabet and four years of Spanish behind me. Classical Greek just needed way more time per day than I could ever have spent — and that was when i was a grad student and theoretically had infinite amounts of time. Seriously, hats off to those who bathe in that particular stream.
Yeah…I don’t know how people did that. I did undergrad and grad coursework in mostly Attic, but I’ve never been anywhere near facile reading level.
Why oh why didn’t I learn the language when my husband did years ago? Or at least try? 😦
I think modern Greek is a lot less complicated…not that I’m even close to fluent in that either! (I understand better than I can speak)
We also had Greek neighbours at that time so I missed out on both counts! 😦
Yay, that is cool – because it still leaves the possibility open that you might be in Europe again next year. If that is the case – and I EXPECT to be updated on further developments – I will not hesitate to fly anywhere on the European mainland, to meet you again. And who knows, maybe the AHA will have to reconvene, too?
Well, this member of AHA will definitely be putting the dates in her diary! How exciting!
btw, the scant Classical Greek I have is self-taught but, as some of you know, I can pretty much get by in the today variety; so although I would not be able to do an accurate translation, I can get the gist of the above. Even Greek kids have to learn/study Classical Greek and it’s probably the most hated subject on the curriculum.
My son went to uni to do joint honours Greek and Latin; he dropped the Greek after a year and switched to French. He said the Greek was the most tortured and miserable subject he’d ever turned his mind to. And this from a guy whose talent is languages.
Er… Obscura… stuffed tomatoes?? But! I think you do brilliantly!
Gemista…..gemise to… He knew what i meant 😉
LOL…it was hilarious because he did it all with a big twinkle in his eye so I knew right away what I’d done….then I told Jen and the giggling commenced 😀
Classic moment… one of many! *snickers*
Oh so very tempted but I doubt I could swing it for the length of that tour… I did pass the info along to my mom, who has been making noises about Greece since we returned, though. After all the talk about Crete, I love that he’s including that at the end. Now should there be some sort of AHA convention before or after… I wouldn’t rule that out. Especially if it was at Crete, where I’d like to get eyes on a fierce brand of shepherd. LOL
The duration gave me pause too…I honestly don’t know that I can be away that long in one stretch.
Like today, he posted pix of Χριστόψωμο. I hate baking bread but for a minute there I was like, hmmm, do we have any yeast?
He is carving out a nice business niche with foodie and especially vegan tours.
Looks tempting! If you do happen to get back across the water please give us a shout I’d love to bump along no matter how shortly!
He posted this today. I’m dying. https://www.facebook.com/george.portokalakis/posts/1245328612157167