Suellen Stringer-Hye (RO2)
I’m a Librarian and Web Developer at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. In that capacity I’m involved in a wide range of activities from marketing the library, creating the library’s website to doing research on emerging topic mapping technologies. Before that incarnation, I ran a Farm Stand on Cape Cod, and lived in Japan and taught English. I’m an independent scholar of Vladimir Nabokov and have published several articles about Nabokov as well as interviews with Stacy Schiff(wrote Pulitzer award winning biography of Vera Nabokov), Stephen Schiff, (screenwriter for Adrian Lyne’s film adaptation of Nabokov’s “Lolita”) and Azar Nafisi, writer of the bestselling “Reading Lolita in Tehran”). For more details about all this see: http://staffweb.library.vanderbilt.edu/libtech/stringer/>
Julia Druk (TOR)
Julia has been an analyst with Creative Good since April, 2007. She has worked on a variety of consulting projects, focusing on B2B and B2C online retailers. Julia holds a Bachelor of Arts in the Humanities from Yale University, and currently resides in NYC.
Thank you everyone!
Folks,
Thanks for such a rich and interesting dialogue about Thucydides Book 1.
Special thanks to all the presenters who led us through each of the questions.
The audio file will be up on the website starting tomorrow, Thursday for those of you who missed the call. We’ll send a note out with a link.
And remember – if you have questions during Book 2, send them to the e-mail list:
ro2@creativegood.com
Best,
Phil
July 2007 Team of Rivals – audio recording
Here’s the audio recording for the Team of Rivals July call. Listen online ordownload the mp3 file and listen to it as a podcast on your ipod.
Book 1 Thucydides – audio recording
Here’s the audio recording for the Thucydides Introduction call. Listen online or download the mp3 file and listento it as a podcast on your ipod.
Steve Mann (RO2)
For over 18 years, Mr. Mann has led successful and profitable high-tech strategic organizations and businesses. Steve leads SAP’s Total Customer Experience initiative. As consumerization changes the way IT professionals evaluate and implement enterprise software, SAP and its partners will leverage TCE to deliver an experience that blends the best of B2B practices with consumer oriented B2C best practices. This new hybrid experience – TCE, will be the engine evolving SAP’s brand in the mid-market.Steve also leads SAP’s competitive strategies office. In this capacity he creates and executes on strategies to positively impact SAP by raising barriers for competitors to enter given markets and supporting the defense of SAP market strongholds. Mr. Mann and team drive the assertive positioning and syndication of marketing and field-ready tactics to help SAP win repeatedly in the market. He also leads SAP’s Services Marketing team to drive successful adoption of SAP services across market segments.Mr. Mann previously led SAP’s Competitive and Market Intelligence team. In this capacity he was responsible for delivering market insight on competitors and market trends to inform SAP’s strategic planning teams, product portfolio process and customer engagement strategies. His team had unique capabilities to assess both market conditions and competitors and delivers these insights as a service to the corporation.Prior to joining SAP, Mr. Mann was a principal with the BRM Group, a Jerusalem based Venture Capital firm. As an executive-in-residence, he was responsible for driving and managing strategic venture investments on behalf of BRM. Mr. Mann’s vision and strategies were essential to reduce time-to-market for companies in the BRM portfolio.Prior to joining BRM, Mr. Mann was the vice president of product strategy, for Computer Associates. In this position, he was responsible for the development and positioning of CA’s enterprise management solutions. He has also led marketing and business development for CA’s web development and hosting division – NetHaven.Mr. Mann holds bachelors degrees in history and psychology from Emory University, a Masters degree in experimental psychology from NYU, and is a PhD candidate in psychobiology at the City University of New York.Steve and his wife Susan live in New York City and have four children.
Reminder: Thucydides Book 1 call, July 11 8pm NYC time
A quick reminder – we have our Thucydides Book 1 call tomorrow, Wednesday, July 11 at 8pm NYC time.
Please confirm:
[ ] Yes, I’ll be on the call
Thucydides Book 1
Wednesday, July 11
8pm New York time
1-800-615-2900
#11215
The questions below will guide our discussion and several members have volunteered to get us going.
Andre and I look forward to it.
Thanks,
Phil
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1. Thucydides’ goals
What does Thucydides lay out in Book 1 as his goals for writing this history? As far as we know, this is the second history ever written- the first being Herodotus’ history of the Persian Wars. For readers of Herodotus – how does Thucydides differ from Herodotus? How does he refer to Herodotus in this first book? What does he owe to Herodotus?
2. Dates of the war
What are the dates of this war between Athens and Sparta? How does this war fit into the contenxt of Ancient Greek history? What important events happened before and after this war?
3. People, place and identity
Let’s do a quick review of how Thucydides refers to Greeks, Corinthians, Pelopenesians, Spartans, Attica, Athens.
Note: Athenians refer to the wars as the “Peloponessian Wars” while the Spartans refer to the wars as the “Athenian Wars.”
4. Origins of the Athenian Empire
How did the Athenian Empire come to develop? What was the Delian League? For readers who just finished reading Herodotus – what can you share with us about the end chapters of Herodotus – the final moments of the Persian Wars – and the rise of Athens?
5. Thucydides philosophy
As you read the early sections of Book One – especially 1.1 to 1.23 – consider Thucydides’ philosophy and biases. Keep in mind that
Thucydides was a precise writer and that every word, every section serves a purpose. Ask yourself “why is he writing this”?
6. Athenian bias? Spartan bias?
Thucydides, an exiled Athenian general, certainly sought to understand the war from different perspectives. Yet, he was reportedly criticized within Athens for a Spartan bias in his writing. From this first book – what do you think? Does he have a bias? What is it?
7. Cause of the war?
Thucydides is well-known, in part, because of his analysis of deep-rooted causes (as opposed to popular or stated reasons for the war). Thucydides argues that because of growing Athenian power it was inevitable for Sparta and Athens to go to war – that the conflict with Corinth over Epidamnus was simply the “proximal” cause.
What do you think?
Corcyra, Corinth??? How’s it going?
Folks,
Do you have any questions about the reading?
The first time reading through Thucydides Book 1 can be confusing. I recall particularly getting confused about the city names – especially Corcycra, Corinth and others that are referenced in the battle that leads to the declaration of war.
Our next call is Wednesday, July 11 (the only Wednesday in our schedule)
Wednesday, July 11
8pm New York city time
Thucydides – Book 1
1-800-615-2900
11215#
How’s it going?
Phil
Greek women
Hi all
Did anyone else see the review of the book Portrait of a Priestess (on the role of Priestesses in Greek society) in last Sunday’s New York Times book Review section? Interesting read.
Hedy
Mark Casey’s notes on Thucydides Book 1
Folks,
Mark has put together some great notes on Thucydides Book 1.
Take a quick look here:
http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=ajdmt4cn3wfz_1059sp4mf
Speak to most of you tomorrow night, Wednesday!
Best,
Phil
11. July 2007 by Arrian
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