Category Archives for Reader Call
Books 4 and 5 Thucydides – audio recording
Here’s the audio recording for the Thucydides October 2007 books 4 and 5 call. Listen online or download the mp3 file and listen to it as a podcast on your ipod. Download Thucydides-October2007-Books4and5.mp3 Continue reading
Book 3 Thucydides – audio recording
Here’s the audio recording for the Thucydides September 2007 book3 call. Listen online or download the mp3 file and listen to it as a podcast on your ipod. Download Thucydides-September2007-Book3.mp3 Continue reading
Book 2 Thucydides – audio recording
Here’s the audio recording for the Thucydides August 2007 book 2 call. Listen online or download the mp3 file and listen to it as a podcast on your ipod. Download Thucydides-August2007-Book2.mp3 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
Book 1 Thucydides – audio recording
Here’s the audio recording for the Thucydides Introduction call. Listen online or download the mp3 file and listen to it as a podcast on your ipod. Download Thucydides-July2007-Book1.mp3 Continue reading
Thucydides Introduction – audio recording
Here’s the audio recording for the Thucydides Introduction call. Listen online or download the mp3 file and listen to it as a podcast on your ipod. Download Thucydides-June2007-Introduction.mp3 Continue reading
Thucydides Book 3 call
Folks, We had a great call last week discussing Book 3 and reviewing Andre’s reading questions. Book 3 is intense – with the Plataean siege, Mytilenean revolt (and debate between Cleon and Diodotus) and the Corcyrean revolution (and Thucydides’ co… Continue reading
Recording from second half of Book 2
After a “spring break” due to the business and academic calendar, we have picked up our Thucydides again and ran a call last night on the second half of Book 2. Download the mp3 file here to listen to the call: Download T-06-06-Book2.mp3 Here’s hi… Continue reading
Book 1 call themes and recording
Folks, We had a great call yesterday discussing Thucydides Book 1. Key themes that emerged for us included: – Origins of the Athenian Empire (and some background that Thucydides did not include about the Delian League) – People, place and identity… Continue reading
Thucydides kickoff recording
Folks, The recording of our kickoff call on Thucydides is now available: Download Thucydides02-25-06-kickoff.m4a Continue reading