Philosophy Pathways
Symposium. The enjoyable way to learn about the Ancient Greeks.
Join us in our unique concept, Symposium, and find out by yourselves WHY Classical Greek learning is greatly considered to be a joyful thing, carried out in public places often accompanied by food and wine and HOW the Greeks tell stories.
Enjoy a wide range of focused lectures, sessions and enjoyable discussions covering topics of ancient Greek philosophy, poetry, tragedies and science by acknowledged experts in their fields. This has nothing to do with dry and dusty lectures; this will be entertaining and intriguing.
Here are some of our suggestions, but all topics are welcome
Oedipus? Never heard of him! – How the Greeks tell stories
- The anger of Achilles (Homer’s Iliad)
- Encountering dangerous females: Calypso, Circe and the Sirens (Homer’s Odyssey)
- How to kill a husband (Aeschylus’ Oresteia)
- Marrying your mother (Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex)
- Fighting with the God (Euripides’ Bacchae)
Where do we come from? Who are we? Philosophy and Science of the Greeks
- Explaining the world (Hesiod’s Theogony)
- The first Physicists (The Presocratic Philosophers)
- And so science was born (Mathematics, Geometry, Music, Astronomy, Medicine, Urbanism)
- What about human beings? (Politics, Ethics – Plato, Aristotle)
How to live, how to die. Festivals, Religion, Rituals of the Greeks
- Worshiping the gods (Athena, Dionysus)
- When women get together (All women festivals)
- We are born, live and then die (rituals accompanying the major stages of human life)
We drink wine and converse, just like the Greeks! All topics welcome!
More Infromation
Wine was not only important for the local economy but it also formed an inseparable part of their daily regimen and was closely connected to their culture and religion.
The god of wine was Dionysus or Bacchus, who offered the vineyard as a gift to the people.
He was a very vivid and erotic god and one of the most worshiped. He inspired artists, philosophers and the lives of everyday people.
He was also the god of ecstasy, ritual madness, fertility, agriculture and theatre. Greeks held many festivals to honor him -called Dionysia- which were celebrated by performing arts and wine drinking.
Wine was also playing an important role in the ancient social intellectual gatherings called Symposia, where conversations about philosophical matters were held over food and wine.
They believed that wine helped them achieve greater intellectual clarity and spiritual awareness and they drunk their wine diluted with water.
The only occasion they drunk “akrato” wine -that is undiluted- was in the morning, when they dipped a piece of bread into it and this was their breakfast.
Today the Greek wine is highly respectable and the Greek wine industry has undergone enormous improvement with serious investments in modern wine making technology. Greek wines offer limitless spectrum of choices due to the pluralism in ecosystem, the microclimate and the varieties of the grapes.
Santorini, Crete and the Peloponnese are the ideal destinations for a wine-lover’s trip.
During our wine tours you will have the opportunity not only to taste unique indigenous varieties of wines but also to discover the secrets of wine making, to be introduced to food and wine culture and to participate in unique wine taste experiences visiting the modern and high quality wineries in their scenic locations.
Today the Greek wine is highly respectable and the Greek wine industry has undergone enormous improvement with serious investments in modern wine making technology. Greek wines offer limitless spectrum of choices due to the pluralism in ecosystem, the microclimate and the varieties of the grapes.
Santorini, Crete and the Peloponnese are the ideal destinations for a wine-lover’s trip.
During our wine tours you will have the opportunity not only to taste unique indigenous varieties of wines but also to discover the secrets of wine making, to be introduced to food and wine culture and to participate in unique wine taste experiences visiting the modern and high quality wineries in their scenic locations.
