Join us on Sunday, August, 30 at 2 P.M. EST for EMBCA's “2,500th Year Anniversary of The Battle of Thermopylae and Salamis Commemoration ” Panel Discussion Zoom Webinar , in Association with The Order of AHEPA Hellenic Cultural Commission. Lou Katsos EMBCA's President/ Founder and Chairman of AHEPA's Hellenic Cultural Commission will make the Opening Remarks and Introduce the Commemoration panel discussion. The panel moderator will be 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 (August for Thermopylae / September for Salamis in 480 B.C.E. ) will include the Mayor of Sparta Petros Doukas (and former Deputy Minister of Finance/ Foreign Affairs), Prof. Chris Carey Emeritus Professor of Greek at University College London (UCL), Jennifer T. Roberts, Professor of Classics at the Graduate Center, CUNY, and Prof. Barry S. Strauss the Bryce and Edith M. Bowmar Professor at Cornell University.