ABOUT ATHENS

Athens is a city of four million people that mixes the ferment modernity with the pull of tradition. The majestic columns of the Acropolis stand guard over a culture that vibrates with the pulse of the 21st.Conformity is challenged here daily, just like it was challenged 2,500 years ago when democracy and philosophy, sculpture and architecture, theater and historiography flourished here.

The city is a natural location for a modern American college. It is the place where the liberal arts were born, where thinkers grappled daily with the practical and the existential, and where for the first time ordinary citizens earned the right to elect their representatives.

Life in Athens is multicultural and inexhaustible. The city is alive at all hours of the day and night. It has a lively arts scene and those lucky enough to live here have access to the food, music, culture and traditions of dozens of nations.

Moreover, in just a couple of hours, a traveler can visit famous sites of Greek, Roman and Byzantine antiquity and the famous beaches of Attica and the Peloponnese, or bask in the sun-drenched beauty of the Aegean islands.