Podcast of "Epilogue: What happened after the Battle of Marathon"

Here's the link to the podcast and slides from yesterday's lecture with Professor John Marincola.

Professor John Marincola - Marathon2500 lecture "Epilogue"

The next and final lecture will be by Marathon2500 Chair Professor Paul Cartledge, A.G. Leventis Chair of Greek Culture at Cambridge University, Tuesday, September 20, 2011 live from Bard College in New York and broadcast free around the world via webcast, teleconference.

Registration for that final lecture will be setup by mid-June. 

Epilogue lecture by John Marincola

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

Marathon2500 

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.

Herodotus and the Invention of History today

Our seventh Marathon2500 lecture, "Herodotus and the Invention of History", by independent scholar Robert Strassler is live today, Tuesday, May 10 at 1pm New York time.

You can join us by clicking here:
http://marathon2500-7.eventbrite.com/ 

Editor of the Landmark Herodotus, Landmark Thucydides, Landmark Xenophon, Landmark Arrian and forthcoming editions, Robert Strassler is widely acclaimed for making the work of these ancient Greek historians accessible to modern readers. In his lecture, he will talk with Professor Paul Cartledge, A.G. Leventis Chair of Greek History at Cambridge and the chair of Marathon2500, about Herodotus, the first historian, and how in writing about the Persian Wars – incluiding the Battle of Marathon - Herodotus invented history.

"Sports and War" podcast now available

Professor Tom Scanlon delivered the sixth Marathon2500 lecture on Tuesday, April 5 focused on the fascinating and puzzling legend(s) of Pheidippides (or whatever his name was), ancient long-distance messenger runners ("day runners" hemerodromoi) as a class, ancient footraces in the stadium, perhaps a bit about the Olympic truce (on the theme of sport and war), the Marathon Race in the modern Olympics, and modern long-distance running. 

Listen to the lecture and download the presentation:
http://readingodyssey.com/professor-thomas-scanlons-sports-war-presenta

"Sports and War" lecture about to begin

Our sixth Marathon2500 lecture, "Sports and War", by Professor Thomas Scanlon begins live in about 30 minutes.

You can still join us by clicking here:

http://marathon2500-6.eventbrite.com/

This global lecture - available free via webinar/conference call will look at the fascinating and puzzling legend(s) of Pheidippides (or whatever his name was), ancient long-distance messenger runners ("day runners" hemerodromoi) as a class, ancient footraces in the stadium, perhaps a bit about the Olympic truce (on the theme of sport and war), the Marathon Race in the modern Olympics, and modern long-distance running.  The common thread is the Greek and our own contest culture.

Department Chair of Comparative Literature, and Director of Comparative Ancient Civilizations at the University of California, Riverside, Tom Scanlon's research is on Greek and Roman sport, and Greek and Roman historical writing; his  teaching interests encompass most areas of Greek and Roman literature, language, and culture, including courses on ancient sports, religion, gender, and mythology.