Study Tour of Ancient Greece

This module provides students with experience of the landscape, monuments and material culture of ancient Greece, facilitating a greater understanding of the societies that flourished in this region in the past. It consists of a 10-day study tour to mainland Greece, visiting key sites and museums, and is followed by related class sessions during Autumn trimester. The archaeological remains date from a range of periods, enabling an appreciation of the main chronological developments in Greek society from the Bronze Age, through Iron Age, Classical, Hellenistic, Roman and into Byzantine. Sites on the itinerary include Mycenae, Tiryns, Corinth, Eleusis, Epidaurus, Delphi, Olympia, Bassae, Mystras and a number of important locations within Athens (e.g. Acropolis, Agora, Kerameikos). The tour is led by lecturers associated with the Irish Institute of Hellenic Studies at Athens (IIHSA), who provide guided tours at each site. The Autumn class sessions focus on building research skills and enabling you to carry out the module assessments: a travel journal and an individual research project relating to a site visited on the tour. This module is available as an elective. NB - this tour takes place in summer 2025 and students MUST have gone on the tour to take this module, which runs in Autumn trimester of 2025-26.