News Archives - 2007

Professors Phil Quanbeck II and Phil Adamo are leading a group of 18 Augsburg students around the ancient sites in Greece and Turkey this summer.  The course, offered through the office of International Programs, titled "Travels & Tourism in the Ancient World and The Travels of Paul," takes the students to cities throughout Greece and Turkey to learn first-hand about travel in the ancient world and to explore the travels of the disciple Paul.

According to one of the students, Jen Winter, each day begins with a devotional and ends with "story time" featuring Jason and the Argonauts or the Acts of Paul.

While visiting places like the Parthenon and an ancient theater in Epidarous, the students are encouraged to both compare their travels to that of ancient travelers as well as to let their visits to places where Paul visited affect how they read the New Testament.

Highlights of the trip include: spending five days in Ancient Corinth, just blocks from where Paul preached to the Corinthians; working for two days at a real-life archaeological excavation; in the style of ancient travelers, take an overnight ferry across the Aegean Sea to the island of Samos, home of the ancient mathematician Pythagoras, and from there to Kusadasi, in Turkey; and day trips to the ancient sites of Mycenae, Epidauros, and Olympia, home of the original Olympics.

Photo: Students visit the theatre in the ancient city of Miletus.