Marathon 2011

[ouragos]

I thought as much - might I suggest that we need a volunteer who has the ability to scope out the ground locally and a) see if there is anywhere suitable to create a camp; b) provides space to undertaks 'activities' and c) establish who owns it?

IF something exists which seems reasonable then the next step would be to establish if we could get access and what the conditions for access would be.

At this stage and given the prevailing conditions and barriers encountered in moving it forward, a public event might be unrealistic but if, perhaps, we rethought this a little and work around:

A private event
Aimed at ancient greek re-enactors and history/academic enthusiasts of the period
Over 3 days
Based on camping at the venue
With the intention of a 'living history' camp and a 'plastic (ordinary) camp.
Designed around 'show and tell' from the re-enactors
Accompanied by a couple of organised activities (which can include parading and battle 'display')
And an organised original battlefield tour/walk for attendees

This might be more realistic - but this rests on gaining access to a suitable piece of land and, given the 'event', if it were not on the plain of Marathon itself it would probably not be as popular. Particularly for people who are travelling a long way to atteng.

Going back to my first point - to move this forward we need an on the ground person, native speaker, to do the legwork and scope out feasibility of venue and associated costs etc (or someone with the 'gift of the gab' - UK term for being able to talk people into anything - that can encourage someone to let us use a 'field' out of the goodness of their heart and for the cudos of being a part of a significant commemoration of their cultural past).

So - is there anyone out there who might be able to do this?