The East Mediterranean Business and Culture Alliance in association with the Order of AHEPA Hellenic Cultural Commission (EMBCA) presented a fascinating discussion on August 30 to commemorate the 2,500th anniversary of the Battles of Thermopylae and Salamis.
Lou Katsos, EMBCA’s President & Founder and Chairman of AHEPA’s Hellenic Cultural Commission gave the opening remarks and introduction to the commemoration which was moderated by Executive Officer of the PhD Program in History of the Graduate Center/Queens College and Professor of Classics Joel Allen. The panelists were the Mayor of Sparta and former Deputy Minister of Finance/ Foreign Affairs Petros Doukas, Prof. Chris Carey – Emeritus Professor of Greek at University College London, Jennifer T. Roberts – Professor of Classics at the Graduate Center, CUNY, and Prof. Barry S. Strauss – the Bryce and Edith M. Bowmar Professor in Humanistic Studies at Cornell University.
This unique discussion on the historic battles which took place 2,500 years ago, in August for Thermopylae and September for Salamis in 480 BC offered insights not only into the battles themselves but also into the history of the Mediterranean world at the time and the repercussions of those battles through history which may be felt even to the present day with Greece as the pillar of the West, standing for democratic values and freedom against the invading imperial Persian army from the East.
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