Implementation
In the footsteps of the Ancient Greeks
Mobility to Athens (C3)
Description of the activities and expected results
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Map of the historical centre of Athens
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Day: Wednesday Morning (2st day of the activities).�Duration: 3 hours (09.30 – 12.30).�Place: Historical centre of Athens.�Sphere: Religious, Artistic and Intangible Heritage.
Topics: �1. Ancient religious monuments (5th c. BC) comparing with religious monuments of medieval and modern era.�2. Ancient architecture and sculpture (5th – 1st c. BC) comparing with modern architecture and sculpture (19th - 20th c. AD), religious and civic.�3. Traditional crafts, food and customs that can still be seen in modern day Athens.
Methodology: Cooperative learning, field survey, interaction, ITC, scavenger hunt with Actionbound app.
Expected results for the students: enhance the intercultural skills, understand the links that connect ancient to modern religion, art and way of life, learn how to organize a treasure hunt with cultural content.
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Athena Group – Religious sphere�
Emphasis on these 4 monuments/sites:
�1. Church-Monastery of Panaghia (Virgin Mary) Pantanassa, 2.Temple of Hephaestus and Athena (“Theseion”), 3.Metropolitan Greek Orthodox Cathedral,
4.Panaghia Gorgoepikoos.��
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Artemis Group – Artistic sphere�
Emphasis on these 4 monuments/sites:
�1. Ancient Greek Agora – Temple of Hephaestus and Athena (“Theseion”), 2. Tower of Winds,
3. Lysikrates Choragic monument,
4. Theatre of Dionysus.����
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Sophocles Group – Intangible Heritage sphere�
Emphasis on these 4 monuments/sites:
�1. Athletics at Lyssiou str., 2.Craftmanship at Adrianou str. 3.Traditional Greek tavern at Lysicrates sqr.,
4.Greek Language and Drama at Dionysus Theatre.�����
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DAY 2 Itinerary (Religious, Artistic and Intangible Heritage spheres)
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The itinerary (Religious, Artistic and Intangible Heritage spheres)
1.Monastiraki sqr. – Church of Panaghia Pantanassa. (Religious – MONUMENT 1)
2.Hadrian’s Library.�3.Ancient Agora - Temple of Hephaestus and Athena aka“Theseion”. �(Religious – MONUMENT 2 and Artistic – MONUMENT 1)�4.Tower of Winds “Horologion Andronikou Kiristou”. (Artistic – MONUMENT 2)�5.Lyssiou srt.- Athletics. (Intangible Heritage – MONUMENT 1) �6.Mnisikleous - Pandrossou str.. �7.Metropolitan Greek Orthodox Cathedral. (Religious – MONUMENT 3) �8.Panaghia Gorgoepikoos. (Religious – MONUMENT 4) �9.Adrianou str. – Traditional Craftmanship. (Intangible Heritage – MONUMENT 2)�10. Plaka – Tripodon str.�11.Lysikrates Choragic monument. (Artistic – MONUMENT 3) �12.Lysicrates sqr. - Traditional Greek tavern - Food). (Intangible Heritage – MONUMENT 3) �13.Theatre of Dionysus - Drama and Greek Language. �(Intangible Heritage – MONUMENT 4 and Artistic – MONUMENT 4)
14.Dionysiou Areopagitou Street�� Expected duration of the activity: 3 hours.�Starting point: Monastiraki square�Finishing point: Acropolis Museum
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Monastiraki is a flea market neighborhood in the old town of Athens. The area is home to clothing boutiques, souvenir shops and speciality stores, and is a major tourist attraction for bargain shopping. The area is named after Monastiraki Square, which in turn is named for the Church-Monastery of Panaghia (Virgin Mary) Pantanassa that is located within the square. The main streets of this area are Pandrossou Street and Adrianou street.
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Order of activities
1.Actionbound QR code
2.Actionbound Quiz (Have a seat in front of the church in the Monastiraki square. What can you see in the south?)
3.Slide description (Greek student)
3.Actionbound Information
(simultaneously)
Hadrian's Library was created by Roman Emperor Hadrian in AD 132 at the time when the city was part of the Roman Empire. Hadrian loved ancient Athens and order the construction of many important buildings.The Library followed a typical Roman Forum architectural style, having only one entrance with in Corinthian order, a high wall, an inner courtyard surrounded by columns and a decorative pool in the middle.
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Order of activities
1.Actionbound QR code
2.Slide description (Greek student)
2.Actionbound Information
(simultaneously)
The Ancient Agora of Athens is the best-known example of an ancient Greek agora, located near the Acropolis. The Agora's initial use was commercial, a market place. Soon it became synonymous with democracy because it was one of the main places in which the Athenians implemented their rights as citizens (500 member Boule, courts, public offices), alongside the Pnyx hill and the Theater of Dionysus. Ruins of many buildings of the athenian democracy and economy can still be seen in the area. One of them has been restored: The marvelous Stoa of Attalos, a massive 2 story market place of ancient Athens, donated by the Greek king Attalos. Today it hosts a museum.
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Order of activities
1.Slide description (Greek student)
1.Actionbound Information
(simultaneously)
There are three distinct orders in Ancient Greek architecture: Doric, Ionic and Corinthian. They became so popular through time that they are still in use, mostly in Europe and America. You can easily recognize the order by checking the capital of the column!
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Order of activities
1. Slide description (Greek student)
1.Actionbound Information
(simultaneously)
The Temple of Hephaestus and Athena Ergani or Hephaisteion commonly called (wrongly) Theseion, is a typical ancient Greek temple. It remains standing largely as built, one of the best preserved temples of the antiquity anywhere in Europe. It is a temple of the 5th century BC and is located in the Agora of Athens, on top of the Agoraios Kolonos hill as one of the landmarks of the ancient city.
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Order of activities
1.Actionbound Quiz
The temple of Hephaestus and Athena Ergani (Theseion) is of which order?
2.Slide description (Greek student)
2.Actionbound Information
(simultaneously)
3.Actionbound Mission
(take a selfie posing like gods)
The octagonal Tower of Winds is built of white Pentelic marble. It has a conical roof, a cylindrical annex and two Corinthian porches. At the top of each of the eight sides there is a relief representation of a wind, symbolized by a male figure with the appropriate attributes and its name inscribed on the stone. There was an elaborate waterclock in the interior. The tower was built in the first half of the 1st century B.C. by the greek astronomer Andronicos, from Kyrrhos in Macedonia.
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Order of activities
1.Actionbound QR code
2.Slide description (Greek student)
2.Actionbound Information
(simultaneously)
Lyssiou street is one of the main streets in the “labyrinth” of the old city of Athens, in Plaka neighborhood. It was paint like a tartan truck in 2004 for the promotion of the Summer Olympics in Athens. Athletics played a huge role in everyday life of Ancient Greeks. The Olympic Games and numerous others athletic festivals were considered of great importance for the Greek way of life. �Their legacy lives on.�
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Order of activities
1.Slide description (Greek student)
1.Actionbound Information
(simultaneously)
2.Actionbound Mission (Make a group video of 4 students running on the "running truck" in Lyssiou str.)
Pandrossou pedestrian street is the main street in old city Athens for souvenir shopping. For this reason it can be said that it is an important part of the old city as far as the economy is concerned. It links Monastiraki square and the Metropolitan Greek Orthodox Cathedral square and is packed with tourists especially in summer days.
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Order of activities
1.Slide description (Greek student)
1.Actionbound Information
(simultaneously)
The Metropolitan Greek Orthodox Cathedral of the Annunciation is the cathedral church of the Archbishopric of Athens and all Greece. Construction began on Christmas Day, 1842 under the architect Theophil Hansen and was continued by other architects until it was completed in 1862. The Cathedral is a three-aisled, domed basilica in neoclassical style but with many byzantine characteristics. Today is the most important church of Athens.
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Order of activities
1.Slide description (Greek student)
1.Actionbound Information
(simultaneously)
2.Actionbound Quiz
(The Metropolitan Cathedral is related to ancient Greek art because at the entrance someone can see…)
The byzantine church beside the Cathedral is known as Hagios Eleutherios or Panaghia Gorgoepikoos. The beautiful small cross-in-square church of the 12th century AD is situated next to the Cathedral of Athens. The monument resembles an open-air exhibition of sculptures because it incorporates 90 sculptures of different eras (Ancient Greek, Roman, Byzantine) in its external walls as a testament that ancient Greece was still “alive” in the Middle Ages. ��
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Order of activities
1.Slide description (Greek student)
1.Actionbound Information
(simultaneously)
2.Actionbound Quiz (The church of Panaghia Gorgoepikoos is unique because…)
Adrianou Street starts in Agora Square, in the heart of Plaka, and connects the centre of the ancient city of Athens to the Arch of Roman Emperor Hadrian. Nowadays, it is one of the most visited streets for tourists because there you can buy ancient Greek replicas, clothes and shoes, eat in a traditional Greek tavern or just explore the labyrinth of side streets that give shape to the Plaka neighborhood.
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Order of activities
1.Slide description (Greek student)
1.Actionbound Information
(simultaneously)
2.Actionbound Mission (We would like to see some street dancing in Adrianou str.!)
Lysikrates Choragic monument was erected on the “Street of the Tripods”, one of the ancient streets of Athens, in 334 B.C.. The circular building rests on a square podium of stone, and consists of six Corinthian columns of Pentelic marble alternating with marble panels from mount Hymettos. The columns are among the earliest examples of the use of the Corinthian order in Athens. It was created as a celebration for a victory in a contest of theatrical plays (tragedies) that were common in ancient Athens. Many such monuments would stand nearby during ancient times.�
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Order of activities
1.Actionbound Quiz
(The Lysikrates Choragic monument is a circular monument that consists of six columns of…)
2.Slide description (Greek student)
2.Actionbound Information
(simultaneously)
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Key part in the Greek Intangible Heritage from the antiquity until modern era is food culture. Ancient Greek cuisine was founded on the "Mediterranean triad" of cereals, olives, and grapes, which had many uses and great commercial value. Also, very popular in ancient Greek cuisine was fish, something to be expected from people that were mastering the seas in the Mediterranean during the antiquity. Modern knowledge of ancient Greek cuisine and eating habits is derived from textual, archaeological, and artistic evidence.
Order of activities
1.Actionbound Quiz
(What is the name of a famous Greek food with roots in ancient Greece?)
2.Actionbound Quiz
(The name a tavern that you can visit in order to find our about Greek food tradition is near by Lysikrates Choragic monument and has the name of a Greek Philosopher who lived in a clay wine jar in the street. What is his name?)
3.Slide description (Greek student)
3.Actionbound Information (simultaneously)
The Theatre of Dionysus Eleuthereus was the major theatre in Ancient Athens, considered to be the world’s first theatre, build in the 5th century BC at the southern slope of the Acropolis. Dedicated to Dionysus the theatre could seat 17.000 people making it an ideal location for Athens’ biggest theatrical festivals where Sophocles, Euripides and Aeschylus presented their theatrical plays. Sometimes it was used as a place for the gathering of the Public Assembly (Ecclesia tou Demou) instead of the Agora or the Pnyx hill. Theatrical plays was one of the most important aspects of the Athenian Democracy and watching them was a major democratic right for the people, both men and women.
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Order of activities
1.Actionbound Quiz
(Who was the god protector of theatre?)
2.Slide description (Greek student)
2.Actionbound Information
(simultaneously)
3.Actionbound Mission (Make a video of acting as actors in an ancient tragedy. Please wear your masks!
2 of the girls will be "actors" and will play a small part of "Antigone", the famous tragedy of Sophocles. The roles are 2, Antigone and her sister Ismene.)
Dionysiou Areopagitou Street is a pedestrianized street, adjacent to the south slope of the Acropolis in the Makrygianni district of Athens. It is named after Dionysius the Areopagite, the first Athenian convert to Christianity and patron saint of the city of Athens. The street acquired its shape in 1955 by architect Dimitris Pikionis and was finally pedestrianized in 2003. It is considered the most beautiful street of the old city combining neoclassical and eclectistic architecture with the unparalleled view of the Acropolis. All of its buildings are inhabited.
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Order of activities
1.Slide description (Greek student)
1.Actionbound Information
(simultaneously)
The Acropolis Museum, one of the most important museums in the world, houses the findings of only one archaeological site, the Athenian Acropolis and its slops. �The museum was built to house every artifact, bronze, marble or clay found on the rock and on the surrounding slopes, from the Greek Bronze Age to Byzantine Greece. The masterpieces of the Golden Age of Pericles, such as the frieze of the Parthenon and the Caryatides are displayed in this state of the art building that was opened to the public in 2009. ��
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Order of activities
1.Slide description (Greek student)
1.Actionbound Information
(simultaneously)
2.Actionbound QR code (in front of the Acropolis Museum)
What has made the greatest impression on you about this itinerary in Athens?
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