The 2,501 Year Anniversary of the Battle of Thermopylae and Salamis ( August/September for Thermopylae / September for Salamis in 480 B.C.E.)-
Last year at this time EMBCA celebrated the “2,500th Year Anniversary of The Battle of Thermopylae and Salamis Commemoration ” with a Panel Discussion Zoom Webinar that helped create in many ways other later discussions around the world on the topic. The panel moderator was Prof. Joel Allen the Executive Officer of the PHD Program in History of the Graduate Center/Queens College and Prof. of Classics. The highly distinguished panelists for this unique historical discussion on the battles 2,500 Year Anniversary included the Mayor of Sparta Petros Doukas (and former Deputy Minister of Finance/ Foreign Affairs), Prof. Barry S. Strauss the Bryce and Edith M. Bowmar Professor at Cornell University, Prof. Chris Carey Emeritus Professor of Greek at University College London (UCL), and Jennifer T. Roberts, Professor of Classics at the Graduate Center, CUNY, . I made the Opening Remarks and Introduced the Commemoration panel discussion. Enjoy.
The 2,501 Year Anniversary of the Battle of Thermopylae and Salamis ( August/Sep…
