If you have views on the matter, I'd be interested in hearing them. In 2001, for the 21st consecutive year, Professor Dick Caldwell's Sporades Tours are going to the eastern Mediterranean. Rather, they're intended for anyone who wants to learn about ancient history and culture while having fun on vacation. Sporades tours are different from the usual tours. For example, in addition to all the famous sites they also go to places like Lerna, Pylos, Dodona, Vergina, Molybdoskepastou, Mistra in Greece and Tlos, Caunus, Phaselis, Eflatunpinari, and Euromus in Turkey.
Participants stay in fine hotels, eat in the best local restaurants, and never have to get up early.
Ancient art, history, and mythology are the emphases in the guiding and lectures offered in these tours. Caldwell, who was the consultant to Disney's Hercules and took the movies producer, directors, and artists to Greece and Turkey in 1995, is the author of The Origin of the Gods and Hesiod's Theogony and retired from USC Classics in 1999. Pollini, internationally known for his books on Roman portraiture and his work in ancient art and archaeology, was Dean of Fine Arts at USC and has excavated widely in Italy and Turkey. For obvious reasons these tours should be of interest to all K-12 educators who include ancient history, religion, mythology, or art in their courses.