{"id":52570,"date":"2016-09-26T04:14:22","date_gmt":"2016-09-26T04:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=52570"},"modified":"2016-10-26T20:26:39","modified_gmt":"2016-10-26T20:26:39","slug":"thucydides-roundtable-begins-october-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=52570","title":{"rendered":"Thucydides Roundtable Begins October 17"},"content":{"rendered":"

[Mark Safranski<\/strong> \/ “zen<\/strong>“]<\/p>\n

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An update regarding the Thucydides<\/a> Roundtable;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Our list of esteemed roundtable participants has been finalized and while some administrative details need to be taken care of in the coming weeks and some promotional announcements are to come, we will formally begin October 17<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Readers who wish to follow along with us\u00a0or engage in the comment section, we will be using The Landmark Thucydides<\/strong><\/a> as our official text.<\/p>\n

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When tweeting about the Thucydides Roundtable<\/strong> we will use the hashtag #FearHonorInterest. <\/strong>Participants may be cross-posting as well to their own blogs or social media accounts\u00a0and are strongly encouraged to do so,\u00a0but for ease of discussion, every participant’s\u00a0post will appear here at zenpundit.com<\/strong><\/p>\n

The format will be similar to blogging roundtable events in past years, notably the Clausewitz<\/strong><\/a> and Xenophon<\/strong> roundtables. Participants will post on one “book” (chapter) a week in sequential order\u00a0– i.e.\u00a0 in week one, everyone posts\u00a0about some aspect of\u00a0Book I. The following schedule will be maintained throughout the roundtable:<\/p>\n

Book I.\u00a0 week of October 17
\nBook II. week of October 24
\nBook III. week of October 31
\nBook IV. week of November 7
\nBook V. week of November 14
\nBook VI. week of November 21
\nBook VII. week of November 28
\nBook VIII. week of December 5
\nConcluding Analysis week of December 12<\/p>\n

“Marching Orders”<\/strong><\/p>\n

For returning participants from prior roundtables, these are essentially the same as the ones enacted at Chicago Boyz blog<\/strong> for the Clausewitz Roundtable<\/a>\u00a0by Lexington Green<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Purpose of the roundtable:<\/strong> The overall goal is for each participant to read\u00a0The Landmark Thucydides\u00a0<\/strong>and to learn something from it, and to convey what they have\u00a0learned in an interesting and engaging and informative way to the other participants and to our readers. Everything else is to flow from that goal and to be consistent with that goal.<\/p>\n

1. Each participant shall read the book.<\/p>\n

2. Each participant shall post his thoughts, comments, analysis, and impressions of the book, including its relevance and application today and in the future. The general thrust is to engage the text of the book, to \u201cmeet Thucydides\u201d and then for each participant to communicate what he has learned in that meeting.\u00a0 Beyond the Peloponnesian War<\/strong> <\/a>itself, the application of Thucydides\u2019s views, as conveyed in The Landmark Thucydides<\/strong>, to current and future issues of strategy, warfare, politics or any other pertinent subject, is encouraged.<\/p>\n

3. There is no absolute prohibition on discussing context, other writers\u2019 views, the history of\u00a0Thucydides’ influence, etc. However, the focus should be the text. Each participant shall use\u00a0their discretion in this regard. There is no limit on length of posts or number of posts by any participant.<\/p>\n

4. The schedule for the roundtable is as stated above. There is no ironclad requirement that each person post each and every week. Nor is there a requirement that each participant only post once per week. However, one post, per week, on the Book which is scheduled for that week, is the guideline<\/span>. Again, each participant shall exercise discretion in this regard. This is supposed to be fun and enlightening, not a chore.<\/p>\n

There will be a “first” post to begin the roundtable by our co-host,\u00a0Tanner Greer<\/strong> of Scholar’s Stage<\/a>. <\/strong> After that, any and all participants may fire away, keeping the schedule in mind.<\/p>\n

If other personal or professional commitments come up, that is understood and excused in advance.<\/p>\n

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\u2019s discretion, but request that no one \u201cjump the gun\u201d with any substantive post prior to the first week.<\/p>\n

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 \u201clateral\u201d dialogue about the book. Such lateral engagement is encouraged. Disagreement and argument of a civil and productive nature is also encouraged.<\/p>\n

6. Mechanics<\/strong>. Each post shall have a title \u201cThucydides, Book __:\u201d 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 \u201cThucydides Roundtable\u201d. 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.<\/p>\n

Participants in coming weeks will be given access to ZP<\/strong> 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<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

7. Comment section<\/strong>:\u00a0 this point is more for newer readers who might be joining us\u00a0rather than the\u00a0participants. As a rule, the comment section here is a genteel place regarding discussions with others and problems are very few. The managing editor here\u00a0is Charles Cameron<\/strong> 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\u00a0time permits.<\/p>\n

Participants, we will be contacting you with further information this week.<\/p>\n

We look forward to seeing you at the roundtable!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[Mark Safranski \/ “zen“] An update regarding the Thucydides Roundtable; Our list of esteemed roundtable participants has been finalized and while some administrative details need to be taken care of in the coming weeks and some promotional announcements are to come, we will formally begin October 17. Readers who wish to follow along with us\u00a0or […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1404,1434],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thucydides-roundtable","category-trt-genesis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52570"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52572,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52570\/revisions\/52572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}