Corinth, Mycene and Nauplion

I'm not sure I spelled all those correctly but those were the places we visited today. In Corinth we got to explore the ruins at an American run archeological excavation site, and we got a tour from a friend of the Kaplans who shared a bunch of interesting and old facts about the agora (or since it was roman built, forum.) I learned today that Paul, from the New Testament, had visited Corinth which was pretty nifty. I might just be a strange child but I thought the ancient toilets were pretty cool, how they were all built along one water channel and there were still carved rock indications or toilets from the ancients. In Mycene we walked to the top of another acropolis, that's just the top of the mountain or hills, and then they build the temples and palaces and such on top of the acropolis. There was an old, I believe it was a cistern, that we got to climb down to the bottom of, it was really cold and wet the farther you went and I thought something was going to jump out at us. Then we got to visit the museum where I spent most of my time there reading the, I think they're the mythologies, behind the cities and the castle and the origination of the wall, it was built by a cyclops by the way, that's how they got super huge rocks up a mountain. Lastly we visited Nauplion where we visited a super old castle. The place was huge, and if you fell off the side you could apparently fall to your death as well as into cacti. At the castle I proceeded to find a window and climb into it where I did get a picture. I'm not sure why but I thought the formation of the rocks in the wall was particularly interesting at the castle. I don't think it was everywhere but in some of the walls they had stones and then encompassing the spaces in the stone there were bricks. It made for a neat looking design if I'm not really sure about the constructional usage of such a thing. Also today I learned about different kind of columns, specifically Doric, roman, and more modern Greek columns. Doric columns were built on the original foundation of the temple unlike the newer Greek columns that had a platform on top of the foundations. Doric columns were also wider at the bottom and more narrow at the tops and built all in one piece from lime stone unlike the newer Greek columns who look to be the same size and built in pieces from marble. Also Roman temples had one entrance, and were built from stone and cement. Greek temples were built out of columns creating entrance to the temple from anywhere, also they had several steps leading up to the temple, but it was encircled with steps so again you could enter from any point.