OUR HIGH SCHOOLERS REINFORCED WHAT THEY LEARNED IN CLASS WITH A FIELD TRIP 13.10.2023

We went to Pergamon this year with our 9th graders as part of an interdisciplinary trip organized by the History, Geography, and Literature departments. With this trip, we aimed to get to know more closely the historical, geographical, and cultural places in Pergamon that have been the cradle of a rich and powerful civilization dating back to Ancient Greece. We started our trip with the Acropolis, the capital of the Kingdom of Pergamon. We visited the Temple of Athena, built in the name of Athena, the God of Reason and War, who was considered the protector of the city. Then, we visited the largest library of the Hellenistic Period, the remains of the Altar of Zeus, one of the most beautiful examples of Hellenistic Period architecture, and the Ancient Theater. After our visit to the Acropolis, we visited the Asclepieion, one of the most important health centers of antiquity, a medical school where famous physicians of the period were trained, and the world's first psychiatric hospital. We followed the traces of the Acropolis, which looks like a big castle, and the Asclepieion from the past to the present while learning about the importance of the city in history.