Corinth

Today, I arrived back in Athens around 6 AM. I hurried back to my apartment to shower and get ready for class. I was extremely tired due to staying up on the ferry to watch another LeBron James loss! In honor of Nowitzki winning a championship, I had to wear his jersey today. We visited the ancient site of Corinth. It was about an hour and a half bus ride from Athens. Before we arrived, we stopped at the Isthmus, which separates Attica from the Peloponnesus. It was first started during the 6th century BCE and not completed until the 19th century CE! The site of Corinth was pretty cool. Mostly all the remains there were from the Roman period, because the Romans had burnt Greek Corinth to the ground in 146 BCE for resisting Roman control in Greece. The massive Temple of Apollo still stood tall with about 7 columns remaining. Since Corinth was a big commercial center, we saw a lot of shops as well. I gave my on-site report on the Peirene Fountain. It went okay. I typed up my report on my Ipad, because I had forgotten paper on the ferry and the sun was blaring at the screen, making it hard to read. So I basically had to wing it. Then we checked out the museum, which had a few interesting things, such as the Phrygian caryatids and the busts of Roman emperors. Later this evening, we took a walking tour around a local district of Athens, learning about Greek nationalism and modern-Greek history. It was interesting, but to be quite honest, I find all modern history rather boring, so it definitely didn't excite me.