Description and navigation

n the summer of 1999, I set out on an eight-week adventure to explore the classical and Byzantine antiquities of Greece and to improve my knowledge of modern Greek. After spending four weeks in Athens studying and visiting as many places of interest as I could, I traveled across Greece, from Mt. Athos to Santorini (Thira), taking photographs and collecting cultural materials to build this web site. The photos were taken with the Sony Mavica F91 digital camera and stored on a laptop computer. Later, more than 400 images (out of almost 1600) were selected and edited with Paint Shop Pro 5 and JPG Optimizer to make them suitable for a Web presentation. In a few instances, the quality of the images was sacrificed for the smaller size of the file and the speed of loading. Since even after the optimization this site is image-intensive, please be patient if you have to wait for the photographs to load. I hope that your patience will be amply rewarded.

My trip was funded by a Professional Development grant and a stipend from the Dean of the Faculty of Rollins College. Thus, A Voyage to Greece is not only an attempt to share with other philhellenes the beauty of Greece and its rich heritage, but also my official report.

ccess the pictures and descriptions of places I visited by clicking the names listed alphabetically in the navigation bar at the left. Those presentations which are subdivided into several pages start with a brief general description, followed by links to sub-pages. The sub-pages open with pictures, followed by a description, and by a navigation box. Those presentations which consist only of a single page have descriptions below the pictures, and no additional navigational aids; that is, after you are done looking and reading, you have to click on a new place within the navigational bar at the left. Clicking on HOME in the navigation bar or at the bottom of any page you are viewing will bring you back to the main map page.

For those visitors who enjoy seeing the places in a broader context, a map of Greece is provided above. It is an image map, that is, as you move your cursor over the map, the cursor changes into a little hand and you can be instantly taken to the place selected. Notice that only the places described in this presentation are clickable. If the size of the map seems too small for your eyes, a link to a large variant (not clickable) is provided in the bottom left corner. Return to the smaller map by clicking on the large one.

Finally, for a quick geographical reference, the title of each page is framed by small maps with red dots indicating the site's location.

VIEWING THE PICTURES: After you click on a thumbnail image, an enlargement of the picture will open in the right window. To return to the place you were just a moment before, click on the enlargement. This way, you do not need to look for the back button on the page you are viewing, on your browser's navigation bar, or on your mouse; moreover, scrolling is kept to a minimum.