Tour Guides Crete educational workshops
Tour Guides Crete educational workshops
Saturday, March 21, at the Research Center for the Humanities, Social Sciences and Education Sciences (KEME-ΠΚ) of the University of Crete, we had the chance to talk with PhD candidate Ioanna Eirini Papazoglou concerning her dissertation, examining how mixed attitudes in managing Venetian monuments, such as the Dominican Monastery of Saint Peter and Saint Catherine of the Sinaites in Heraklion.
Tour guide and retreat leader Ioanna Glypti provided deeper insight on the Tragedy of Antigone, questioning the institutions, the state and the moral and ethical values of society presented in this play.
This led to a fruitful discussion with Associate Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Crete, Aris Tsantirópoulos, who examined the topic of vendetta in Greece, exploring the individual and social dimensions within local communities.
Don Evely, archaeologist and former curator of Knossos at the British School at Athens, and Maria Spourdalaki, PhD candidate in Social Anthropology, also joined the conversation, adding their own experience.
On the following day, Sunday, March 22, the Tour Guides Crete team followed Don Evely and Katerina Kopaka, Professor at the University of Crete, at the outskirts of Knossos, where the excavations and the new findings at the Little Palace, and Villa Ariadne provide further knowledge of the day-to-day lives of the Minoans.
Both workshops offered a deeper understanding of the connection between archaeological evidence and human presence through time. The combination of academic insight with field exploration contributes to continuous learning and deeper interpretation. As tour guides, we move forward by engaging research, dialogue, and landscape in the stories we share, but mostly in the way we experience and communicate the past.
