Turning Points of History: Malta to Istanbul

Along the shores of the Mediterranean Sea, over thousands of years stretching back to antiquity, civilizations have met and mingled, religious and political views have been exhorted and enforced, trade routes have been coveted and claimed, and imperial political and military power struggles have fashioned and refashioned the map time and time again. This springtime cruise, was conceived in part by Denis Feeney, Princeton’s Giger Professor of Latin, Professor of Classics, and the Chair of the Council of the Humanities. After a night on land in Malta, our travelers boarded the 36-cabin Variety Voyager for a ten-night cruise and explored the sites and events that "have cumulatively left their mark on the geopolitical formations of the Mediterranean that we recognize today."