<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Andre,<div><br></div><div><div>Please send this link to your readers and let them know they can hear the podcast and see Professor Paul Cartledge's slides if they missed the kickoff lecture for Marathon2500!</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.marathon2500.org/home/2010/9/30/podcasts-and-slides-for-professor-paul-cartledges-lecture.html#comments">http://www.marathon2500.org/home/2010/9/30/podcasts-and-slides-for-professor-paul-cartledges-lecture.html#comments</a></div><div><br></div><div><div>On Sep 28, 2010, at 11:09 PM, Andre Stipanovic wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div marginleft="10" marginright="10" margintop="10" marginbottom="10" style="margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; "><div align="left" style="text-align: left; "><font face="Arial" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">Hello fellow explorers,</font></div><br><div align="left" style="text-align: left; "><font face="Arial" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">Let me introduce myself as your moderator. My name is Andre Stipanovic and I have moderated many Reading Odyssey discussion groups, including multiple rounds with Homer, Herodotus, Thucydides, and most recently a pilot run with Xenophon. Each time, I find myself learning more; each time becomes a new reading for me.</font></div><br><div align="left" style="text-align: left; "><font face="Arial" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">As we encounter Herodotus'<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Histories</i>, which set the blueprint for subsequent historical accounts, I want to address a few issues which may be on your minds. </font></div><br><div align="left" style="text-align: left; "><font face="Arial" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">First, remember why we are reading and experiencing this document together: so we can pool our collective reading experience in order to understand Herodotus and his world, while also helping to make more sense of our own. Take advantage of this opportunity over the next few months to ask questions and keep our conversations going over the phone and online via email. </font></div><br><div align="left" style="text-align: left; "><font face="Arial" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">Second, as for the many references to people and places mentioned over 2500 years ago in the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Histories</i>, the Landmark edition of Herodotus tackles these references well for us in footnotes, maps and, appendices. The Landmark edition format makes reading Herodotus very user-friendly.</font></div><br><div align="left" style="text-align: left; "><font face="Arial" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">For our first call on Monday October 11, please buy or borrow the Landmark Herodotus, and read the introductory material in it found on pp.ix-xxxvi by Rosalind Thomas. We'll go over the ground rules for how a discussion is held over the phone and introduce Herodotus, the "father of history." Please see below for our reading schedule, listed by book. Enjoy the preliminary reading, let me know if you have any questions, and we'll talk more on Oct 11. I will send out the telephone # and passcode to get in to the conference call as we approach our discussion date.</font></div><br><div align="left" style="text-align: left; "><font face="Arial" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">Sincerely,</font></div><div align="left" style="text-align: left; "><font face="Arial" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">Andre</font></div><br><div align="left" style="padding-left: 45px; margin-top: 10px; text-align: left; "><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode" size="-1" color="#493728" style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode'; font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(73, 55, 40); ">READING GROUP SCHEDULE</font></div><div align="left" style="padding-left: 45px; margin-top: 10px; text-align: left; "><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode" size="-1" color="#493728" style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode'; font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(73, 55, 40); ">All conference call dates start @8pm New York time and take place on Mondays:</font></div><div align="left" style="padding-left: 45px; margin-top: 10px; text-align: left; "><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode" size="-1" color="#493728" style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode'; font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(73, 55, 40); ">Oct 11, 2011- Introductory call</font></div><div align="left" style="padding-left: 45px; margin-top: 10px; text-align: left; "><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode" size="-1" color="#493728" style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode'; font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(73, 55, 40); ">Nov 15, 2011 - Book I</font></div><div align="left" style="padding-left: 45px; margin-top: 10px; text-align: left; "><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode" size="-1" color="#493728" style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode'; font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(73, 55, 40); ">Dec 6, 2011 - Books II & III</font></div><div align="left" style="padding-left: 45px; margin-top: 10px; text-align: left; "><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode" size="-1" color="#493728" style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode'; font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(73, 55, 40); ">Jan 10, 2011 - Books IV & V</font></div><div align="left" style="padding-left: 45px; margin-top: 10px; text-align: left; "><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode" size="-1" color="#493728" style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode'; font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(73, 55, 40); ">Feb 7, 2011 - Book VI</font></div><div align="left" style="padding-left: 45px; margin-top: 10px; text-align: left; "><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode" size="-1" color="#493728" style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode'; font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(73, 55, 40); ">Mar 7, 2011 - Book VII</font></div><div align="left" style="padding-left: 45px; margin-top: 10px; text-align: left; "><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode" size="-1" color="#493728" style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode'; font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(73, 55, 40); ">Apr 4, 2011 - Book VIII & IX</font></div><br><br><br></div></span></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>