Delphi relief with Hercules signified by the lion skin
1 - Neapolis where Paul arrived by boat in Macedonia - modern-day Kavala, Greece
2 - Philippi where Paul & Silas met Lydia and the Philippian Jailor's family - wall and gate next to the stadium - a Roman civil war occurred in 31 BC between Antonius and Octavius (Julius Caesar) in Philippi and Actium and many war veterans made Philippi their home (modern-day Filippi)
3 - Philippi theater
4 - Philippi stones
5 - Philippi niches for idols to mythological gods
6 - Philippi overlook Basilica A and B with Mount Pangeon in the background where Macedonian King Phillip II (father of Alexander the Great) and other kings mined much gold that funded their wars, economy, and exploits
7 - Philippi Basilica A remains
8 - Philippi Basilica A remains
9 - Philippi Basilica A marble floor
10 - Philippi cistern and alleged prison where Paul & Silas were kept in stocks, sang late at night, earthquake occurred, and Philippian Jailor and his family were baptized into Christ
11 - Philippi Via Egnatia road that extended from Durrachium (Durras in the Balkans) on the Adriatic Sea to Byzantium/Constantinople/Istanbul and is the primary road that Paul followed throughout Macedonia from Neapolis to Philippi to Ampipholis to Appolonia to Thessalonica to Berea - many Greeks still consider Constantinopolis/Istanbul as their true capital since it was the capital of the worldwide church from AD 330-394 and the capital of the Eastern Orthodox church from AD 394-1453 when Mehmet II took over and began the Ottoman Empire
12 - Philippi overlook of the Agora (marketplace) and Basilica A and B with Mount Pangeon in the background
13 - Philippi individual shop walls of the Agora
14 - Philippi Basilica B
15 - Philippi Basilica B
16 - Philippi Basilica B
17 - Philippi Basilica B column
18 - Philippi latrine
19 - Philippi graveyard next to river with Greek Orthodox church next to it
20 - Philippi river where Lydia was baptized into Christ and Philippian Jailor's family may have also been immersed
21 - Philippi river baptismal built by the Orthodox church and Rex Geissler
22 - Philippi Orthodox church inside built next to river in honor of Paul and Lydia who are pictured in the stain glass
23 - Philippi Orthodox church infant baptismal where Orthodox infants are immersed - note that the Greeks have convictions about what their language meant by baptism (immersion) but not the biblical precedence of believers being baptized
24 - Amphipolis lyon statue celebrating the Athenian victory over the Spartans in 422 BC because the Athenians fought like lyons
25 - Amphipolis lyon statue erected by the Athenians
26 - Amphipolis river next to which the Athenians and Spartans fought
27 - Goats grazing on Mount Pangeon marble
28 - Apollonia ruins
29 - Apollonia area near Lake Volvi
30 - Aegean Sea sunset with fisherman rods
31 - Eastern Orthodox church icons
32 - Thessalonica overview photo - modern-day Thessaloniki (Saloniki), which has always been a second city, second to Pella during the Macedonian Kingdom, second to Athens in ancient Greece, second to Rome during the Roman Empire, second to Constantinople during the Byzantine period, second to Istanbul during the Ottoman Empire, and second again to Athens since the Greek Revolution (AD 1821-1830)
33 - Thessalonica shrine to the apostle Paul allegedly at the site of the biblical Jason's house
34 - Thessalonica Arch of Galerius marking the victory against the Persians in the Galatian War
35 - Thessalonica shoreline of the Aegean Sea
36 - Thessalonica shoreline looking across the Aegean Sea toward Mount Olympus
37 - Thessalonica gate and wall
38 - Thessalonica ruins
39 - Thessalonica Orthodox church courtyard
40 - Thessalonica catacombs from c. 150 BC with orthodox icons
41 - Thessalonica Ottoman fortress
42 - Thessalonica Hagia Sophia ("Wisdom of the Lord") Orthodox Cathedral c. AD 650
43 - Thessalonica Hagia Sophia Orthodox Cathedral icons
44 - Thessalonica Hagia Sophia Orthodox Cathedral dome
45 - Thessalonica Hagia Sophia Orthodox Cathedral kissing icons, which symbolizes giving hugs and kisses to their best friends because there are no photos of Jesus - Orthodox use only icons rather than statues because statues show naked bodies like Michelangelo's statue of David
46 - Berea Via Egnatia Roman road that Paul traveled on missionary journeys all the way from arriving in Macedonia at Neapolis to Berea (modern-day Veroia)
47 - Berea ancient Jewish synagogue foundation where modern mosaics have been placed in honor of Paul's missionary journeys - all of the modern Jews in Berea were murdered when the Germans shipped them off to concentration camps during the World War II axis occupation of Greece
48 - Berea ancient Jewish synagogue foundation where modern mosaics have been placed in honor of Paul's missionary journeys with Paul teaching the Bereans of noble character
49 - Berea ancient Jewish synagogue foundation where modern mosaics have been placed in honor of Paul's missionary journeys - Paul receiving vision from the Holy Spirit of a man telling Paul to visit Macedonia
50 - Pydna where the brothers took Paul to leave the Macedonian persecution and he sailed down the Aegean Sea coast to Athens (Acts 17)
51 - Pydna sea salt farm
52 - Pydna Aegean Sea looking toward Mount Olympus
53 - Via Egnatia bridge over Loudias River still standing from the Roman era
54 - Macedonian cotton field with Mount Paikon in the background where people search for the Nazi's hidden gold
55 - Pella palace court where Macedonian Kings reigned including Phillip II and his son Alexander the Great and where Alexander the Great was born - Macedonian philosopher Aristotle instructed Alexander the Great, probably here at Pella
56 - Pella ancient pipes
57 - Pella ancient Macedonian royalty gold crown with acorns adorning it
58 - Pella ancient statue of Poseidon
59 - Pella ancient mosaic (some of the world's oldest mosaics) showing a mythological god riding a leopard
60 - Pella ancient mosaic showing two warriors fighting a lion
61 - Pella ancient mosaic showing a mythological centaur
62 - Pella ancient mosaic
63 - Pella ancient mosaic
64 - Virgina royal tombs tumulus (burial hill) with several Doric-style temples thought by many archaeologists to include the tomb of Macedonian King Phillip II, his youngest wife, and some of his royal family - Phillip II was the father of Alexander the Great who is credited with building the tumulus - the Greeks have done a wonderful job of creating a fascinating museum inside the tumulus with the Doric Temples, gold crowns laced with leaves and acorns, breastplates, etc.
65 - Aegean Sea shoreline with Mount Olympus (home to the mythological god Zeus) in the background
66 - Mount Olympus where the Greek mythological god Zeus' throne was allegedly located and where the Romans built the city of Dion with 15,000 people in honor of the god Jupiter, the Roman name for Zeus - photo from the Aegean Sea
67 - Mount Olympus
68 - Mount Olympus stream waterfall with incredibly clear and pure water
69 - Mount Olympus leaf-strewn trail
70 - Mount Olympus stream
71 - Mount Olympus stream
72 - Mount Olympus stream
73 - Mount Olympus summit with moon
74 - Mount Olympus Sacred Refuge with hot food and drinks available - I cannot explain in words how enjoyable the food was after a four-mile long hike and 3,500 vertical feet up Mount Olympus!
75 - Mount Olympus
76 - Mount Olympus summit named Zeus' Throne
77 - Leptokaria Platamon Fortress on the Aegean Sea was first built by the Athenians in 425 BC to defend against the Persians and used by all civilizations since then
78 - Leptokaria Platamon Fortress
79 - Aegean Sea shoreline fish restaurant octopus and anchoy meal with Greek tour guides George & Sula Terezakis
80 - Meteora cliffs in Thessaly where AD 9th century monks built caves and monasteries to hide from persecution
81 - Meteora cliffs
82 - Meteora cliffs
83 - Meteora cliffs and monasteries
84 - Meteora cliffs and monasteries
85 - Meteora cliffs and monasteries
86 - Meteora cliffs and monasteries
87 - Meteora sheepdog and goats
88 - Meteora goats
89 - Meteora monastery wine cellar with literally tons of wine, which was the primary drink of the monks
90 - Thermopyle monument dedicated to the 700 Spartans and 300 Thespians who were killed in 480 BC while holding off the Persians so that the Athenians could receive the Delphi Oracle's advice and then retreat from Athens and destroyed the Persian army during the battle on the water in the battle of Salames
91 - Monument dedicated to Athenasios Viacos, a freedom fighter Orthodox priest and leader of the Greek Revolution, who fought against the ruling Ottomans, was tortured and killed
92 - Delphi sunset - Delphi was believed to be the centre of the ancient world--the "Omphalos"(Navel) of the earth, whose prestige extended far beyond the boundaries of the Hellenic World with the "Oracle of Delphi" and the home of the god Apollo - later, the Delphi Oracle was shown to be a scam as the oracles took three months to reveal the answers during which they sent the best-trained spies in the ancient world to gather information from the location and made the answer non-distinct if they were not sure - in the late AD 200's, Emperor Diocletian allowed the Germanic barbarians (barbarian is a Greek word as are many others...) to come into the Roman Empire and destroy many of the ancient religious sites including Delphi as he was initially somewhat passive/supportive of Christianity before outlawing Christianity in AD 303
93 - Delphi sphinx
94 - Delphi relief with Hercules signified by the lion skin
95 - Delphi relief
96 - Delphi
97 - Delphi
98 - Delphi bronze charioteer sculpture
99 - Delphi bull sculpture
100 - Delphi warrior helmet
101 - Delphi treasury of the Athenians
102 - Delphi games area
103 - Delphi sanctuary of Athena Pronea
104 - Delphi
105 - Delphi Temple of Apollo
106 - Delphi
107 - Delphi Temple of Apollo
108 - Delphi Theater
109 - Delphi Theater
110 - Delphi Hippodrome
111 - Delphi spring of Castalia
112 - Delphi olives
113 - Delphi largest olive grove in Greece, which has around 110 million olive trees total
114
115 - Mount Parnassus with village monument to the hundreds of Greek men and entire Greek male populations who were slaughtered by the Germans when they retreated and left Greece
116 - Thebes Museum vase with Linear B Script - Thebes was related to the tragedy of King Oedipus (Oedipus Rex)
117 - Thebes Museum Linear B Script
118 - Thebes Museum Linear B Script
119 - Thebes Museum statue
120 - Thebes Museum measuring stone for delivering different amounts of liquids
121 - Thebes Museum bone box
122 - Thebes Museum bone box
123 - Thebes Museum and Thebes Orthodox Archbishop
124 - Thebes Museum mosaic
125 - Thebes ruins
126 - Thebes Museum column styles
127
128 - Athens restaurant musicians
129 - Athens dinner
130 - Athens International Teaching Seminar (ITS) hosted by Douglas Jacoby
131 - Athens ITS lesson "Teaching & Media" by Roger Lamb
132 - Corinth Bible lesson about the city and Paul's arrival around AD 50 given by Steve Kinnard with Steve Staten in the background
133 - Corinth Corinthian Gulf
134 - Corinth Canal looking toward the Ionian Sea begun by Roman Emperor Nero and completed in 1896 connecting the Aegean Sea and Ionian Sea
135 - Corinth Canal with Rex Geissler
136 - Corinth Canal looking toward the Aegean Sea
137 - Corinth Temple of Apollo
138 - Corinth Temple of Apollo
139 - Corinth
140 - Corinth
141 - Corinth Bema platform for public addresses and Judgement Seat where the Jews brought Paul to the Proconsul who through out the suit and the Jews then beat their synagogue ruler
142 - Corinth
143 - Corinth
144 - Corinth Fountain of Peirene
145 - Corinth Fountain of Peirene
146 - Corinth Agora
147 - Corinth Museum statue
148 - Corinth ruins where the Erastus inscription is located
149 - Corinth Erastus inscription stating "Erastus for his treasureship at his own expense laid this"
150 - Corinth Erastus inscription with Gordon Ferguson
151 - Corinth Erastus inscription with Rex Geissler
152 - Corinth Temple of Apollo with AcroCorinth (Acropolis) in the background
153 - Corinth ruins and Ionian Sea
154 - Corinth AcroCorinth
155 - Corinth AcroCorinth
156 - Corinth AcroCorinth
157 - Corinth AcroCorinth
158 - Corinth AcroCorinth summit with Kelly Petre and Ed Anton
159 - Corinth AcroCorinth summit looking toward the fruited plains of the Peleponnese
160 - Corinth lunch on the Ionian Sea with Gordon Ferguson, Jaewon Park, Mark Hodge, Mark Shaw, Joey Harris, John York, and Tim Huffman
161 - Corinth lunch on the Ionian Sea shoreline with Tricia Staten, Vicki & Douglas Jacoby, Steve Kinnard, Mark & Carol Morris, Albert Wagers, and James Greig
162 - Corinth lunch on the Ionian Sea shoreline with John Hansell, Jeff Kazee, Bill Nagle, Charles Pike, Steve & Talia & Tricia Staten, Vicki & Douglas Jacoby, Steve Kinnard, James Greig, Rob & Pam SKinner, Ivan Junakovic, Damir Jandricek, and Mike Vassallo
163 - Corinth lunch on the Ionian Sea shoreline with Ed Anton, Terrie & Mike Fontenot, Marcia & Roger Lamb, Carolyn & Joe Fields, and Steve Smith
164 - Corinth sunset
165 - Athens International Teaching Seminar Question & Answer session with teachers Andy Fleming, Douglas Jacoby, Steve Kinnard, and Gordon Ferguson
166 - Athens Douglas Jacoby Bible studies including coping the Greek New Testament with no spaces and all capitals, which reveal the difficulties and the accuracy in manuscript copy-making
167 - Athens Areopagus where the Apostle Paul spoke to the Athens intellectuals - Athens is where Plato and Socrates resided
168 - Athens Areopagus with the Acropolis in the background
169 - Athens Areopagus with the Acropolis in the background
170 - Athens Areopagus with Douglas Jacoby and the Acropolis in the background
171 - Athens Areopagus
172 - Athens Areopagus with Rex Geissler and the Acropolis in the background
173 - Athens Acropolis odium
174 - Athens Acropolis Parthenon
175 - Athens Acropolis Parthenon
176 - Athens Acropolis Parthenon with Steve Kinnard and Rex Geissler
177 - Athens Acropolis Parthenon
178 - Athens Acropolis Parthenon
179 - Athens Acropolis Parthenon
180 - Athens Acropolis Parthenon with 2002 International Teaching Seminar attendees
181 - Athens Acropolis Parthenon with 2002 International Teaching Seminar attendees
182 - Athens Acropolis Museum sphynx
183 - Athens Acropolis Museum statue
184 - Athens Acropolis Temple
185 - Athens Acropolis Temple
186 - Athens Acropolis Temple
187 - Athens Acropolis Temple
188 - Athens
189 - Athens Greek Parliament guard in traditional Greek garb
190 - Athens Temple of Zeus
191 - Athens Temple of Zeus
192 - Athens Temple of Zeus with the Acropolis in the background
193 - Athens Temple of Zeus with the Acropolis in the background
194 - Athens Temple of Zeus
195 - Athens
196 - Athens church service
197 - Athens church service with Douglas Jacoby giving message "Men of Athens" based on Paul's first visit to Athens
198 - Athens dinner after church
199 - Athens Museum of Cycladic Art with Rob & Pam Skinner
200 - Athens Museum of Cycladic Art with Rob & Pam Skinner and Rex Geissler
201 - Athens Museum of Cycladic Art
202 - Athens Museum of Cycladic Art
203 - Athens Museum of Cycladic Art with Rob & Pam Skinner imitation
204 - Athens Museum of Cycladic Art vase
205 - Athens Museum of Cycladic Art vase
206 - Athens Haunted House built before Disneyland's
207 - Athens Agora Emperor Hadrian (AD 117-138)
208 - Athens Temple of Vulcan
209 - Athens Temple of Vulcan with Rob Skinner
210 - Athens Agora and Acropolis from Temple of Vulcan
211 - Athens Temple of Vulcan
212 - Athens Agora and Acropolis from Temple of Vulcan
213 - Athens Temple of Vulcan with Rob & Pam Skinner
214 - Athens Agora and Acropolis with Rex Geissler from Temple of Vulcan
215 - Athens Agora Museum
216 - Athens Agora Museum statue of Aphrodite
217 - Athens Agora Museum statue
218 - Athens Agora Museum sarcophagus
219 - Athens Agora Museum statue of satyr
220 - Athens Agora Museum vase to measure time for speakers and make sure they did not go over their alloted speaking length
221 - Athens Agora Museum head
222 - Athens Agora Museum bowl
223 - Athens Closing Banquet overlooking Acropolis with Brett Miller, John York, Jan & Mitch Mitchell, Mark & Carol Morris, and Gordon & Theresa Ferguson
224 - Athens Closing Banquet overlooking Acropolis with Vicki Jacoby, Wathy Linoto, Pam & Rob Skinner, Win Linoto, and Douglas Jacoby
225 - Athens Closing Banquet overlooking Acropolis with Joey Harris, Steve & Talia & Tricia Staten, and Penny & Francois Faure
226 - Athens Closing Banquet overlooking Acropolis with Rex Geissler, Ed Anton, Mike DeSouza, Mike Fontenot, John Hancell, Jeff Kazee, and Vou Athens who helped Douglas Jacoby coordinate the Athens ITS
227 - Athens Closing Banquet overlooking Acropolis with Damir Jandricek, Mirko Russo, Jaewon Park, Bill Nagle, Bernhadr Georg, Rico van Rooij, Thierry Fender, and Ivan Junakovic
228 - Athens Closing Banquet overlooking Acropolis with Jeff Chacon, Mark Hodge, James & Emily Greig, and Carolyn & Joe Fields
229 - Athens Closing Banquet overlooking Acropolis with Albert Wagers, Steve Kinnard, Roger & Marcia Lamb, and Christine Russo
230 - Athens Closing Banquet overlooking Acropolis with Kelly Petre, Charles Pike, Tim Huffman, Steve Smith, Brett Kreider, and Mike Van Auken