Useful Links

2007 FACULTY DIRECTOR

Dr. Christopher Johnstone, Dept. of CAS
221 Sparks Bldg.
University Park, PA
Tel. (814) 865-1948
e-mail: clj3@psu.edu

Office of Education Abroad Athens Program Coordinator

Julia Beth Grim
Education Abroad Advisor
420 Boucke Building
University Park, PA 16802

Tel. 814-863-0208
Fax: 814-863-7138
e-mail: juliabeth@ip.psu.edu

Athens Center On-site Coordinator

Ms. Rosemary Donnelly
Athens Centre
Domboli 13/Archimidous 48
116-36 Athens
GREECE
tel. 011-30-1-701-5242 direct dial from U.S.--011 is the international dialing code from the U.S.; 30 is the country code for Greece; 1 is the city code for Athens); fax: 011-10-30-1-701-8603

PSU Office of Education Abroad web site: www.international.psu.edu, --> Athens Program www.international.psu.edu/students_study_abroad/programs_athens.htm

The Athens Centre web site (where we will be based, includes directions from the airport, map of the Athens Centre neighborhood, and information about the Centre and the various programs that it hosts and/or sponsors): www.athenscentre.gr. Ignore information about applications, fees, and courses; this refers to their own programs and not to us. The Athens Centre: The on-site host for the Athens Program, in the Pangrati district of central Athens -- near the classical stadium that was rebuilt for the 1896 Olympics, and in walking distance of most major archaeological sites.

Links to anything and anybody in classics and ancient Mediterranean studies from the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae.

The State Department's information sheet for Greece.

The weather in Athens - from AccuWeather, of course.

The Greek Embassy: Lots of useful information on the embassy's website; you also can contact the embassy to request information & maps; but do so early, as the turnaround can take some time.

Embassy of Greece
2221 Massachusetts Ave., NW
Washington, DC 20008
tel. (202) 939-5800; fax (202) 939-5824
website: http://www.greekembassy.org/

American Embassy in Athens: The website provides practical information for Americans going to or living in Greece, as well as general information & bulletins from the U.S. Department of State.

American Embassy in Athens
91 Vassilissis Sophias Avenue
101 60 Athens
GREECE
tel. 011-30-1-721-2951
website: www.usembassy.gr/eupres/eu_pres.htm

U. S. State Department:

Passport information: http://www.state.gov/travel/

Travel advisories: http://travel.state.gov/travel_warnings.html

STA (Council) Travel:

Student airfares, Eurailpasses, useful information: http://www.counciltravel.com/

Online resources:

· Athens News--The online version of Athens' English-language newspaper: http://www.ana.gr/

· Greece on-line travel guide--http://www.helios.gr/

· Greece on-line travel guide-- http://travel.hit360.com/

· Focus Magazine/Greece-- http://www.focusmm.com/greece/gr_anamn.htm

· Hellenic Culture--An informational site maintained by the Greek Ministry of Culture: http://www.culture.gr/

· Treasures of Mount Athos--Another Ministry site: http://www.culture.gr/2/21/218/index.html

· Greek web resources--"The complete database of Hellenic web resources": http://www.forthnet.gr/hellas/hellas.html

· Hellas Home Page--Links (a lot of links) to information about Greek culture: http://www.greece.org/hellas/root.html

· Athens 2004--The 2004 Olympics, in Athens: http://www.athens2004.net/

· The Ancient City of Athens--A collection of photographs of the major archaeological sites in Athens: http://www.indiana.edu/~kglowack/athens/

· The Perseus Project--An online database of classical Greek culture and literature (including several of the texts we'll be reading, in both Greek and English), as well as study-tools and a large collection of images from every part of Greece (photographs, site-plans, etc.): http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/indexPlain.html

· Ancient Rhetoric--An online guide to rhetoric in ancient Greece & Rome: http://www.gsu.edu/~wwwrnc/oldrhetoric.htm

Academy of Athens

Acropolis

Stoa of Attalos, Athenian Agora

The Lions Gate, Mycenae

Harbor at Gythion