Hey Folks,<br><br>I'm Bill Damon and by day I help build the web sites for a medical publisher in Boston and at night I am a shamanic healing practitioner.<br><br>I've read the Old Testament, Plato, and Aristotle with the Reading Odyssey.<br>
<br>I joined the Reading Odyssey because I loved the goals and the projects that Phil and Pat have taken on. And I've learned a great historical perspective from the works we've talked about in the conference calls. The calls have been a really great place for me to get a better understand of the readings and their context. They've also helped me greatly during those times when I had trouble getting the larger view of what we were reading also.<br>
<br>Its great to meet everyone! Talk to you all soon.<br><br>Bill<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 4:59 PM, Andre Stipanovic <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:astipanovic@mail.hockaday.org">astipanovic@mail.hockaday.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div style="text-align: left;" align="left"><font style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="+0">Welcome to the Xenophon’s <u>Hellenika</u> reading group!</font></div>
<div style="text-align: left;" align="left"><font style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="+0">I am Andre Stipanovic and will be your moderator for the next 7 months as we discuss this great book, published in the Landmark series and edited by Robert Strassler. We are fortunate to have Robert Strassler himself join us on our first call scheduled for Monday January 11, 2010. </font></div>
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<div style="text-align: left;" align="left"><font style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="+0">Here is the game plan for our first call.</font></div>
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<div style="text-align: left;" align="left"><font style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="+0">I would like to start out by introducing you to information important to reading this key text of early 4th century Greek history. First, we will talk a little bit about how to get the most out of this particular edition of <u>Hellenika</u>. Please make sure to get a copy of the Landmark Xenophon edited by Robert Strassler if you haven’t already done so. Then read the Editor’s Preface (pp. lxvii-lxxiv) and Key to Maps (p. lxxxii) to help you get acquainted with the format of this very user-friendly book. I also suggest you briefly look over the Chronological Outline of Text (p. lxxix) and bookmark it for later reference as a handy ‘road map’ of how events unfold in later books. I will briefly comment on these sections before I take us through events leading up to Book I (pp. ix-xii)
as well as Xenophon’s life (pp. xvii-xxi).</font></div>
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<div style="text-align: left;" align="left"><font style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="+0">Then Robert Strassler will share his experience with this text, especially in terms of seeing Xenophon’s <u>Hellenika</u> in respect to other sources we have of events in Greece in the 4th century B.C. He will be explaining to us why comparing sources is critical in terms of understanding Xenophon’s intent and veracity. You can look over pp. xxvi-xxx and lix-lxii in the Introduction to get acquainted with these issues if you like before or after the call.</font></div>
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<div style="text-align: left;" align="left"><font style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="+0">I would like to keep our calls as focused as possible on our reading, so as a way of getting to know each other before our first call, would you ‘reply to all’ on this email with a little bit about yourself: What motivates you to read books like Xenophon’s <u>Hellenika</u>? What other kinds of books do you enjoy reading and why? </font></div>
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<div style="text-align: left;" align="left"><font style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="+0">Summary of passages (all taken from Introduction to Landmark Xenophon’s <u>Hellenika</u>) that will be referred to next call:</font></div>
<div style="text-indent: 36px; text-align: left;" align="left"><font style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="+0">Editor’s Preface (pp. lxvii-lxxiv, strongly recommended)</font></div>
<div style="text-indent: 36px; text-align: left;" align="left"><font style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="+0">Key to Maps (p. lxxxii, strongly recommended)</font></div>
<div style="text-indent: 36px; text-align: left;" align="left"><font style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="+0">Chronological Outline of Text (p. lxxix, recommended)</font></div>
<div style="text-indent: 36px; text-align: left;" align="left"><font style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="+0">Section 1, p. ix (strongly recommended)</font></div>
<div style="text-indent: 36px; text-align: left;" align="left"><font style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="+0">Section 2, pp. ix-xii (strongly recommended)</font></div>
<div style="text-indent: 36px; text-align: left;" align="left"><font style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="+0">Section 4, pp. xvii-xxi (recommended)</font></div>
<div style="text-indent: 36px; text-align: left;" align="left"><font style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="+0">Section 7, pp. xxvi-xxx (optional)</font></div>
<div style="text-indent: 36px; text-align: left;" align="left"><font style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="+0">Section 14, pp. lix-lxii (optional)</font></div>
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<div style="text-align: left;" align="left"><font style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="+0"><u>Xenophon 2010 </u>Hellenika<u> - Conference Call Schedule</u></font></div>
<div style="text-align: left;" align="left"><font style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="+0">Call 1 - Monday January 11, 2010: Introductory call with Robert Strassler</font></div>
<div style="text-align: left;" align="left"><font style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="+0">Call 2 - Monday February 22, 2010: Books I-II.3.10</font></div>
<div style="text-align: left;" align="left"><font style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="+0">Call 3 - Monday March 22, 2010: Books II.3.11 - III</font></div>
<div style="text-align: left;" align="left"><font style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="+0">Call 4 - Monday May 10, 2010: Books IV & V</font></div>
<div style="text-align: left;" align="left"><font style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="+0">Call 5 - Monday June 7, 2010: Book VI</font></div>
<div style="text-align: left;" align="left"><font style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="+0">Call 6 - Monday July 12, 2010: Book VII </font></div>
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