AGD "Persian Wars" Tour in Greece! Jan. 3-11, 2025
Ancient Greece Declassified
Dr. Lantern Jack
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🗓️ 7 September 2024
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Summary
AGD is going back to Greece this January 3-11 for another epic adventure! This time we'll be exploring the Persian Wars and the profound effect they had on Greek civilization. We will visit all the major focal points of the Greco-Persian showdown (Marathon, the Acropolis, Eretria, Salamis, Thermopylae, Plataea, and Delphi) as well as a wide variety of other fascinating historical sites.
Check out our highlight reel from the first tour: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1g-w7u6aQz0
To reserve your spot, email us at greecepodcast@gmail.com
For the itinerary visit https://greecepodcast.com/tour4
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, I've got some exciting news that I wanted to share with you, which is that I am planning another adventure in Greece this January, and I'd like to invite you to join me. |
| 0:11.0 | I actually just got off a three-hour phone call with my partner Aristotle, the archaeologist back in Greece, and I am bubbling with excitement about the itinerary we came up with because it is so awesome. |
| 0:22.3 | The theme this time around is going to be the Persian Wars, that epic clash of civilizations |
| 0:27.7 | that shook the world 2,500 years ago, and which we discussed way back in episode 7, by the way. |
| 0:34.9 | Now, I know it's been a while since you've heard from me, and a lot of you have |
| 0:38.2 | been messaging me being like, yo, what happened to you? Life has been crazy. I'm not going to |
| 0:44.3 | bore you with the details, but the podcast will resume. In fact, the next episode will be coming out |
| 0:50.3 | later this month. So there's also that. But the big news for today is the upcoming tour. |
| 0:56.7 | The fourth AGD experience will be happening this January the 3rd through the 11th. And if you |
| 1:03.0 | decide to come, as usual, it's up to you to get to Athens by the 3rd and to arrange how you get |
| 1:08.9 | home after the 11th, but everything in between |
| 1:11.4 | is taken care of by yours truly. |
| 1:14.2 | And we will be hitting up all the major focal points of the Greco-Persian Wars, as well as a |
| 1:19.6 | wide variety of other incredible ancient sites. |
| 1:22.7 | I'm really stoked about the itinerary. |
| 1:24.8 | This is actually the draft I was scribbling as we were on the phone, |
| 1:28.6 | but the full thing should be up at greecepodcast.com slash tour four, that's number four, by the |
| 1:34.4 | time this announcement comes out. So why the Persian Wars? Well, quite simply because the Persian |
| 1:42.2 | wars, I think, represent the most decisive moment in ancient Greek history. |
| 1:48.1 | This massive conflict was the crucible that forged the Greek civilization that we know today. |
| 1:54.7 | The civilization that produced democracy, tragedy, political theory, philosophy, even history writing itself. |
| 2:02.8 | I don't think we would have gotten the flourishing of all those things to the extent we did |
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