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Ben Bernanake as Odysseus?
Folks, Thought you would enjoy this clip from the Wall Street Journal today, July 29. Phil Economy Following the Odyssey of Ben Bernanke By DAVID WESSEL July 29, 2006; Page A2 http://online.wsj.com/article/SB115413539979621147-search.html? KEYWORD… Continue reading
Reminder – call next week, July 31
Folks, Just a quick reminder that we have a call next week: Thucydides Books 5 & 6 Monday, July 31 8pm New York time/5pm San Francisco 800-615-2900 11215# Hope you are all doing well! Best, Phil Continue reading
Reminder – call this Monday!
Folks, Just a quick reminder – we have a call this coming Monday to discuss Chapter 3. Mon, June 19th 8pm new york time 1-800-615-2900 11215# Make sure you’ve read these key parts of Book 3: – Mytilenean revolt and debate between Cleon and Diodotu… Continue reading
Graffiti from the Roman Empire
Discover Magazine recently published an article, “Vox Populi”, which details a 150 year old project in Germany to catalog Roman graffiti. More than 180,000 of these inscriptions are now cataloged in the Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum, a mammoth sc… Continue reading
Remaining Thucydides call schedule
here’s the remaining call schedule – – mon, june 19th 8pm new york tine book 3 – mon, july 10th 8pm new york time book 4 – mon, july 31 8pm new york time book 5 & 6 – fri, aug 18 live conversation at the met in NY book 7 & 8 we’ll send out reminde… Continue reading
Thucydides Book 1 call
Folks, We have our next call – on Book 1 – Saturday, 3/11 @ 12PM New York Time (9AM California Time) 1-800-615-2900 1-661-705-2005 (for callers outside the USA and Canada) code: 11215 What do you think so far? Phil Continue reading
A day at the opera – Lysistrata
Nancy Kopans, reading odyssey group member and opera fan, has suggested that we go to the Opera together to see Lysistrata – Aristpohanes’ third play in his “War and Peace” series set during the Peloponessian war. The women of Athens, led by Lysis… Continue reading
Next book: Thucydides
I’m sorry it’s been so long since you have heard from me. In addition to the normal holiday madness, reading group co-founder (and my best friend), Pat, got married recently and I was his best man. Not only did Pat get married but he got married t… Continue reading
Eric Rosensweig
Before joining TripAdvisor as SVP of Business Development, Eric Rosenzweig spent two years as Executive Vice President at SideStep and prior to that he was at Travelocity for two-and-a-half years, most recently as Vice President of Business and Co… Continue reading
Great news – Robert Strassler is joining us in NY
Folks, As I announced last week on our call, Robert Strassler, editor of The Landmark Thucydides, is coming down from Boston to spend the afternoon and evening with us at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in August. If you have not RSVP’d for our fir… Continue reading →
17. July 2006 by Arrian
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