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Posted 21 January 2009 - 02:02 AM
ok then. I am reading the Iliad right now for my myth class. There is a quiz tomorrow so, it is kinda important.
I like the Iliad, it isn't bad as far as being around 2500 years old.
EDIT: For peope trying to catch up... the next many many posts (up until about #720) is our discussion on the Iliad or Trojan War to be more specific. Beware of spam hehe, we needed something to discuss.
I like the Iliad, it isn't bad as far as being around 2500 years old.
EDIT: For peope trying to catch up... the next many many posts (up until about #720) is our discussion on the Iliad or Trojan War to be more specific. Beware of spam hehe, we needed something to discuss.
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Posted 21 January 2009 - 02:03 AM
Well, I'm chained to my keyboard right now, so lets spam. You want a drink my friend? I hear there's witches and psychos and Necrophiliacs romping about tonight. Lets get smashed before we're killed.
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Posted 21 January 2009 - 02:07 AM
Path-Shaper, on Jan 21 2009, 12:02 AM, said:
"Thanks for the ear, buddy, I needed it"
As you offer him your hand to shake, you start to register how immobile the dude is. Slowly, you raise the helmet visor, and are quite startled to realize the armor is empty.
You don't know what is worse: the idea that some people use medieval armors as decoration outside the movies, or the fact you've been talking to it for close to an hour
Gamelon (Peril) has been modkilled. He was innocent
I put in the people who were on the train when the lynch occured. Silanah was not on the train when the lynch happened.
As you offer him your hand to shake, you start to register how immobile the dude is. Slowly, you raise the helmet visor, and are quite startled to realize the armor is empty.
You don't know what is worse: the idea that some people use medieval armors as decoration outside the movies, or the fact you've been talking to it for close to an hour
Gamelon (Peril) has been modkilled. He was innocent
I put in the people who were on the train when the lynch occured. Silanah was not on the train when the lynch happened.
BOOOOO!!!! PERIL BOOOO!!!
Ok now with that out of the way I am sorry about Lisheo. He is a good player. I do think that Serc was a good lynch and I stick with my reasons for voting for him.
The really messed up thing is the fact that it looks like there are a couple of players who have extra votes. The longer that they are in the game the more powerful they become. Someone suggested that hopefully one of the symps did not have that power. I really hope that since venge isn't moding something crazy like that wouldn't happen. I just logged in to see what became of the lynch. I am off for the rest of the night. Probably.
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Posted 21 January 2009 - 02:07 AM
reading the actual poetic version, written in dactylic hexameter 
The course basically covers the Trojan War in all its aspects, so there are many plays we have to read as well. Just starting with Iliad though.
The course basically covers the Trojan War in all its aspects, so there are many plays we have to read as well. Just starting with Iliad though.
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Posted 21 January 2009 - 02:07 AM
i think the genius of the Illiad lies in the fact that Homer does not, in fact explicitly condemn the Trojans.
Illiad does not include the actual fall and sacking of Troy.
i wonder, did tHomer actually consider Troy to be part of the Hellenistic world, as compared to later writers who portrayed troy as the first embodiment of "the East" and "Asia" in the context of clash of civilizations?
Illiad does not include the actual fall and sacking of Troy.
i wonder, did tHomer actually consider Troy to be part of the Hellenistic world, as compared to later writers who portrayed troy as the first embodiment of "the East" and "Asia" in the context of clash of civilizations?
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Posted 21 January 2009 - 02:09 AM
Meanas, on Jan 20 2009, 09:07 PM, said:
Path-Shaper, on Jan 21 2009, 12:02 AM, said:
"Thanks for the ear, buddy, I needed it"
As you offer him your hand to shake, you start to register how immobile the dude is. Slowly, you raise the helmet visor, and are quite startled to realize the armor is empty.
You don't know what is worse: the idea that some people use medieval armors as decoration outside the movies, or the fact you've been talking to it for close to an hour
Gamelon (Peril) has been modkilled. He was innocent
I put in the people who were on the train when the lynch occured. Silanah was not on the train when the lynch happened.
As you offer him your hand to shake, you start to register how immobile the dude is. Slowly, you raise the helmet visor, and are quite startled to realize the armor is empty.
You don't know what is worse: the idea that some people use medieval armors as decoration outside the movies, or the fact you've been talking to it for close to an hour
Gamelon (Peril) has been modkilled. He was innocent
I put in the people who were on the train when the lynch occured. Silanah was not on the train when the lynch happened.
BOOOOO!!!! PERIL BOOOO!!!
Ok now with that out of the way I am sorry about Lisheo. He is a good player. I do think that Serc was a good lynch and I stick with my reasons for voting for him.
The really messed up thing is the fact that it looks like there are a couple of players who have extra votes. The longer that they are in the game the more powerful they become. Someone suggested that hopefully one of the symps did not have that power. I really hope that since venge isn't moding something crazy like that wouldn't happen. I just logged in to see what became of the lynch. I am off for the rest of the night. Probably.
No srss talk. Now is time for Spam.
We discussed the Iliad quite extensively in the Trojan War unit in Classical Civ. That was my favorite part of that course.
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Posted 21 January 2009 - 02:09 AM
Well the Iliad isn't meant to be about the fall of Troy, rather it is the story of Achilleus and his quarrel with Agamemnon.
While it is the story of Achilleus, it is interesting to note that it doesn't include his death. I guess it just resolves the main conflict in the story.
While it is the story of Achilleus, it is interesting to note that it doesn't include his death. I guess it just resolves the main conflict in the story.
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Posted 21 January 2009 - 02:13 AM
well, yeah, it misses a large part of Ahilleus' story.
We get the resolution of the conflict between him and Hector, I believe, but his furthher great deeds (defeat of the Amazons, and then defeat of the Ethiopians, led by the son of Aurora, (Memnon, iirc) who ALSO posesses Hephestus-crafted armor), and his eventual death at the hands of Paris.... I never did understand why an arrow to the heel would prove lethal, since it's not like Paris used poison or anything...
We get the resolution of the conflict between him and Hector, I believe, but his furthher great deeds (defeat of the Amazons, and then defeat of the Ethiopians, led by the son of Aurora, (Memnon, iirc) who ALSO posesses Hephestus-crafted armor), and his eventual death at the hands of Paris.... I never did understand why an arrow to the heel would prove lethal, since it's not like Paris used poison or anything...
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Posted 21 January 2009 - 02:13 AM
Mockra, on Jan 20 2009, 09:07 PM, said:
i think the genius of the Illiad lies in the fact that Homer does not, in fact explicitly condemn the Trojans.
Illiad does not include the actual fall and sacking of Troy.
i wonder, did tHomer actually consider Troy to be part of the Hellenistic world, as compared to later writers who portrayed troy as the first embodiment of "the East" and "Asia" in the context of clash of civilizations?
Illiad does not include the actual fall and sacking of Troy.
i wonder, did tHomer actually consider Troy to be part of the Hellenistic world, as compared to later writers who portrayed troy as the first embodiment of "the East" and "Asia" in the context of clash of civilizations?
Correct, Homer was quite fond of Troy, as was Alexander later on in history. Also, Homer condemned the war a leetle bit and used the Iliad to convey some of the dangers of the war being fought by the people at the time. Or was that Euripides...Damn, I'm gonna fail the exam.
Emurlahn, on Jan 20 2009, 09:09 PM, said:
Well the Iliad isn't meant to be about the fall of Troy, rather it is the story of Achilleus and his quarrel with Agamemnon.
While it is the story of Achilleus, it is interesting to note that it doesn't include his death. I guess it just resolves the main conflict in the story.
While it is the story of Achilleus, it is interesting to note that it doesn't include his death. I guess it just resolves the main conflict in the story.
I thought his death was in the Odyssey.
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Posted 21 January 2009 - 02:15 AM
Fener, on Jan 21 2009, 03:00 AM, said:
I don't give a shit what's discussed, I just want there to be discussion. Come on, feed my fucking habit.
I am feeling a little verklemped talk amongst yourselves. I will give you a topic.
The radical reconstruction of the south after the Civil War was neither radical nor a reconstruction. Discuss.
