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Dick Caldwell
 
    Professor Emeritus of Classics, USC (other positions at the Universities of Minnesota, Texas, and Colorado), consultant to Disney's "Hercules," author of Hesiod's Theogony, The Origin of the Gods, Vergil's Aeneid, and dozens of articles on subjects ancient and modern.
     All tours to Greece and Turkey are led by Dick, an ex-hockey player, founder of Sporades Tours, and Professor of Classics at USC from 1976 until his retirement in 1999.  In 1975 Dick taught Psychiatry at the University of Colorado Medical School (the subtitle of his book The Origin of the Gods is "A  Psychoanalytic Study of Greek Theogonic Myth").     
    He has written many books and articles about antiquity (and other subjects) and he has been taking people on unconventional tours to the eastern Mediterranean for 25 consecutive years.  He is (for what it's worth) the world's leading authority on the psychoanalytic study of antiquity, he knows (and will tell you) the secret meaning of all the Greek myths, he speaks modern Greek, some Turkish, and hardly any Arabic, and he claims to know everyone in Greece and Turkey.

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