Wednesday, June 8, 2011
Speaker: JOHN MARINCOLA
4:00 PM ET/ 1:00 PM PT (90 minute lecture and Q&A)
Professor Marincola (Ph.D., Brown) is the Leon Golden Professor of Classics at Florida State University. The editor of the Penguin Herodotus, Professor Marincola specializes in Greek and Roman historiography and rhetoric and in this final lecture of the Marathon2500 series, Professor Marincola will talk about what happened after the battle.
Location: Teleconference/webinar from anywhere in the world
Free registration: http://marathon2500-8.eventbrite.com
People around the world will get a chance to participate in the celebration of the battle of Marathon, thanks to a cultural campaign initiated by the Reading Odyssey, a New York not-for-profit. The Reading Odyssey and Marathon2500 chairman Paul Cartledge, A.G. Leventis Chair of Greek Culture at Cambridge University will recruit the world’s best Hellenic scholars and sports historians to deliver eight lectures on the cultural, intellectual and athletic legacy of the Battle of Marathon. The talks will be given before live audiences, webcast online and archived for viewing or listening on demand. Lectures will begin in September 2010 and run through June 2011. To multiply their impact, the Reading Odyssey will work with universities, colleges, high schools, museums and sports organizations to create satellite listening centers.