Today we went to Corinth, Mycene, and Nauplion. Our dear friend Liz kindly offered to give our group a tour of the site and then hospitality on her balcony. There was some concern that there might be an explosion of cuteness when we got Ellie with Liz's new kittens, and so it went.
I've been to Corinth more times than I could possibly count, since I helped David Romano survey parts of it for the Corinth Computer Project, and then spent time there when Phil was doing the training dig during our year in Athens. But Liz's tour showed me a very different side of my favorite site.
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| Liz giving our tour. |
The tour covered the highlights, but she also pointed out the everyday side of Corinth:
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| Liz described this as a marble or stone game like "Go" for people waiting and listening to speakers. |
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| To Meros: The public communal toilets with running water. |
It was a much more domestic side of Corinth than I'd thought about before. And then there is the joy of a second generation of Kaplans connecting to the site. This is an important place for us... not only do we know it intimately, but we got engaged here, on Liz's balcony in 1993. It is nice to share it with our kids.
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| Ta paidia under the looming mountain. |
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| Ellie and Ozzie in Ellie's chair. |
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| Impromptu Latin lesson, yes, Latin. Corinth is mostly Roman ruins. |
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| Ellie loved the kittens... too much cuteness! |
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| Liz's kittens |
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