Cruises of the Athena in Greece and the eastern Mediterranean, 1910 . finely preservedTemple, and above all a magnificent Amphi-theater, excellently preserved and imposingin situation. Friday, May 26. Ravenna, perhaps the mostunique city in Italy. In addition to its mosaics,the most important in the world, the remarkableTomb of Theodoric is of exceptional interest.(See note on page 31.) Saturday, May 27. Venice. A brief stopis made on behalf of those who began the cruiseearlier, and, having already visited Sicily andGreece, finish their cruise with Dalmatia. It isassumed that members of the cr
Cruises of the Athena in Greece and the eastern Mediterranean, 1910 . finely preservedTemple, and above all a magnificent Amphi-theater, excellently preserved and imposingin situation. Friday, May 26. Ravenna, perhaps the mostunique city in Italy. In addition to its mosaics,the most important in the world, the remarkableTomb of Theodoric is of exceptional interest.(See note on page 31.) Saturday, May 27. Venice. A brief stopis made on behalf of those who began the cruiseearlier, and, having already visited Sicily andGreece, finish their cruise with Dalmatia. It isassumed that members of the cruise have visitedor will visit the Queen of the Adriatic at someother time. Sunday, May 28, we are steaming down theItalian coast. Monday, May 29. We again stop brieflyat Brindisi to release or receive members of thecruise. Then on, along the coast. Tuesday, May 30. We are still coastingsouthward, this time along Calabria, roundingthe heel of the boot, and following toward thetoe. The day is full of suggestion, however,passing Tarentum and Sybaris and Croton and 13. A Popular Occupation on the Athena Metapontum, with memories of great Greeksand greater Greece. SICILY Wednesday, May 31. Taormina. Our Sicilian cruise begins with the grandest of alloutlooks, the view from the rock-hewn Theaterof Taormina, justly famed as the finest in theworld. Then on through the Straits of Messina,past Scylla and Charybdis. (See note on page 3i.) June 1. Cefalu, a place seldom visited be-cause unprovided with hotels, but the possessorof perhaps the finest mosaics in the world. Thevisit here, as in so many other cases, is madeeasy by the Athena. June 2-4. Palermo. The splendid Sicilianmetropolis rivals Naples in beauty of situation,and far surpasses it in the interest of its historicmonuments representing the blended Saracenic-Norman civilization. June 5. Segesta. The impressive excursionto this city which lured Athens into the fatefulSyracusan campaign is facilitated by the Athena,which now head
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