Draft Schedule

Thursday

If you are in country, there will be plenty of work to do buying supplies, getting camp ware together, and picking people up at the airport. But you’ll need a hotel if you are in country for Thursday, ’cause camp won’t open until Friday.

Friday

All reenactors arrive on site at “camp.” We build camp, erecting period tents and tripods and arranging sleeping and food prep areas. Some units have tents, others will have period sails or just cloaks on spears, and some will have no tents at all, and every one of those IS an acceptable period solution. However, we will ask that camps be maintained as close to an authentic way as possible, and Taxiarchoi will be held responsible for their presentations. No plastic water bottles visible… buy straw baskets to hide things…

When the camp is the way we want it, anyone present can start doing drill and working on individual and group interpretations. In the Plataeans, we hope to have a good Pyricche to do for the public and we hope ot be able to sing the Paean of Apollo, and we’ll put the info for both on this site so that other groups and individuals can join us if they like. But we also understand that other groups will have other things to practice! Friday is for practice.

Noon: Assembly of the Taxiarchoi in camp (officers call). All are welcome—it’s not a secret meeting—but only the officers should talk. Much. Long meetings can be the death of reenactment. We’ll shake hands, introduce ourselves, and go over the schedule. Friday afternoon, we should try to drill the phalanx, and the Persian commander should try to drill his/her troops as well. I’d rather see us able to flawlessly execute a few agreed commands than vaguely go through a whole litany, but this is the sort of thing I’d like to discuss on the forum and have agreed in advance. Again, I’d like to see the Persians get expert and letting fly couds of (rubber blunt) arrows, but that’s up to the Satrap. Whoever he or she may be!

Friday evening: Those camping will cook dinner, pour some libations, and socialize. But despite the temptation to stay up too late and drink too much, the Taxiarchoi will have us all in bed by midnight, because Saturday will be long, hard, and physically demanding.

Saturday

Rise early, breakfast, and an early drill for both Phalanx and Psiloi and the Persians.

9 AM		All reenactors should be on site AND IN KIT.
10 AM		March off from camp to the Tomb of the Athenians.
11 AM		At the Tomb of the Athenians. Quick “Program” which may look like this: We’ll set up our aspides against spears at a few different ranges, and let the Persians shoot rubber blunts at them. We’ll run the Hoplitodromos (one marked stade in armour) We’ll run the hoplitidromos WHILE an archer shoots at an aspis—to show the public how many shots an archer could get off. We’ll sing the Paean, and all the Hoplites will charge together, and do the drill we’ve practiced. Individual groups will have time to put on their own demonstrations. And finally, Athanasios Porporis will offer libations and a memorial ode in a solemn ceremony. N.B. When we drill, we’ll have to practice forming a three sided square—easy enough—with the Persians as one side, so that we look crisp and respectful. That’s an exhausting 2 hours of public interpretation.
1 PM - 2 PM		Lunch and rest.
2 PM		March to the Tomb of the Plataeans.
3 PM		arrive and repeat the morning schedule, depending on attendance at the Tomb. Or we may march back to camp and perform there, on the field north of the pine woods. Or the trophy! We have to be flexible on this, and everything else.
5 PM		Back to camp, dinner and swim in the ocean.

Sunday

Monday (optional)

Rise and pack camp, shake hands goodbye and start planning for Artemesium and Thermopylae!