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Thucydides Questions & Notes
Hi folks,I look forward to our discussion tonight. Here are the questions once again for our discussion and some other notes about main events in Book 2 and speeches contained therein.Andre 1. According to Thucydides, how were Athens and Sparta ea… Continue reading
Notes and random musings about Book Two
Hi folks, That Google Doc where I keep my notes on the reading continues to exist at the following URL: http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=ajdmt4cn3wfz_1059sp4mf I haven’t quite finished jotting down notes for this book, but most of them are there, so … Continue reading
Reading Odyssey member plays the main stage
Folks, The members of our reading groups are doing a lot of good things – including the co-founder of the Reading Odyssey – my close friend Pat Wictor. Pat, when he’s not reading the classics with us, is a full-time folk and blues musician. This l… Continue reading
Reading Odyssey member in the New York Times!
Folks, Erin McKean, member of Reading Odyssey 2 (currently reading Thucydides), guest authored “On Language” this Sunday while William Safire was on vacation. Just as we read the classics to better understand ourselves – where we’ve come from, wha… Continue reading
Thucydides Book 2 Questions
Greetings everyone,Thanks for all of your input on our last call. I regret not being able to stay with you past the first hour of our discussion, but I literally witnessed an explosion (or maybe a lightning bolt?) less than a block away from my li… Continue reading
July 2007 Old Testament – Joshua, Judges, Ruth – audio recording
Here’s the audio recording for the Old Testament July call. Listen online or download the mp3 file and listen to it as a podcast on your ipod. Download Old-Testament-July2007-Joshua-Judges-Ruth Continue reading
Old Testament call: Tues, July 17 8pm ET/5pm PT
I look forward to our Old Testament call this coming Tuesday. We are going to talk about the *three* books we’ve just read: Joshua, Judges and Ruth. Tuesday, July 175p [8pm ET]Joshua, Judges, Ruth1-800-615-290011215# Please confirm you’ll be on th… Continue reading
Suellen Stringer-Hye (RO2)
I’m a Librarian and Web Developer at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. In that capacity I’m involved in a wide range of activities from marketing the library, creating the library’s website to doing research on emerging topic mapping … Continue reading
Julia Druk (TOR)
Julia has been an analyst with Creative Good since April, 2007. She has worked on a variety of consulting projects, focusing on B2B and B2C online retailers. Julia holds a Bachelor of Arts in the Humanities from Yale University, and currently resi… Continue reading
Thank you everyone!
Folks, Thanks for such a rich and interesting dialogue about Thucydides Book 1. Special thanks to all the presenters who led us through each of the questions. The audio file will be up on the website starting tomorrow, Thursday for those of you wh… Continue reading