Thucydides Roundtable Begins October 17
If a participant wants to put up some short post pertaining to the roundtable on their own blog or social media account, prior to the formal beginning date, I leave that to each person’s discretion, but request that no one “jump the gun” with any substantive post prior to the first week.
5. Each participant should feel free to respond to issues raised by other participants in their posts, leave comments on posts, cross-post on their own blogs, or otherwise engage in “lateral” dialogue about the book. Such lateral engagement is encouraged. Disagreement and argument of a civil and productive nature is also encouraged.
6. Mechanics. Each post shall have a title “Thucydides, Book __:” then the title the participant is using for the specific post, after the colon. This will help everyone keep track of where each participant is in the book. Each post shall be labeled with the category “Thucydides Roundtable”. Posts will have a “read more” break after a few paragraphs in order to maximize attention on all of the posts and to make things visually manageable for our readers.
Participants in coming weeks will be given access to ZP to post directly. If the participant is unfamiliar with WordPress and blogging generally, they may email their posts to me and I will put them up as quickly as I can. Participants with technical questions about formatting (ex. an image or map) in their posts can address their questions to co-host Lynn C. Rees.
7. Comment section: this point is more for newer readers who might be joining us rather than the participants. As a rule, the comment section here is a genteel place regarding discussions with others and problems are very few. The managing editor here is Charles Cameron and he keeps an eye on the comments section – comments with two or more links are automatically held for moderation, which he or I will approve as soon as time permits.
Participants, we will be contacting you with further information this week.
We look forward to seeing you at the roundtable!
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Lexington Green:
September 26th, 2016 at 8:26 pm
Looking forward to it!
Nathaniel Lauterbach:
October 2nd, 2016 at 7:50 pm
This will be welcome respite from the absolutely crazy political season we’re on.
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I look forward to this.
Jim Greer:
October 14th, 2016 at 10:39 am
Reading Thucydides and Chase’s the Third Wave simultaneously. Looking for synergy…we’ll see. Like this approach. Its a forcing function to think.