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General Category => General Talk => Topic started by: Frisky SKeleton on November 04, 2008, 08:05:34 am

Title: Doin it greek style'
Post by: Frisky SKeleton on November 04, 2008, 08:05:34 am: Hey you know what I think would be a really neat ability? Interpreting themes and characters in Greek and Roman art and literature. It would be pretty impressive to pick up a peice of pottery and say "hey, this one's Zeus. See that squiggle? Thunderbolt."

It would be impressive and useful, especially tommorow, when I have an exam on this and I'm horrible at it. Any tips?
Title: Doin it greek style'
Post by: Farren on November 04, 2008, 08:09:59 am: I don't know what you're asking for.

You're studying greek mythology right? It can't be that hard to match the image on the work with the mythological figures, can it?
Title: Doin it greek style'
Post by: Farren on November 04, 2008, 08:11:25 am: I bet I could do it, I was raised on THE ADVENTURES OF HERCULES and XENA WARRIOT RPINCESS

I know greek mythology like I know the tip of my dikc
Title: Doin it greek style'
Post by: Cardinal Ximenez on November 04, 2008, 08:14:58 am: You seem to be doing this again. I do not think this forum is what you think it is for.

http://www.pantheon.org/ may help you.
Title: Doin it greek style'
Post by: Hundley on November 04, 2008, 08:20:24 am: drink olive oil & wear a toga
Title: Doin it greek style'
Post by: Frisky SKeleton on November 04, 2008, 08:24:44 am: i'm sorry that you think this forum is something else! plenty of people here must have done classics or have an interest in greek and roman stuff. wash cycle went nuts for indo-hellenic stuff or something, this topic is for them as much as it is me. well it could be.

like it's not hard to go "oh hey, i don't know too much about the statues or the pottery or anything, but i'm totally gay for the illiad and blah blah blah"

this is how topics work.
Title: Doin it greek style'
Post by: FrostyPink on November 04, 2008, 09:20:55 am: Turn up for your exam completely shit-faced, having watched loads of films set in the wrong time period, but convince yourself it is the right time period. Probably best to do that to Gladiator and... hell, Pirates of the Carribean will do. You'll write a damn good essay... If they knew what the fuck you were writing about.
Title: Doin it greek style'
Post by: fatty on November 04, 2008, 09:45:34 am: Make iced-coffee and don't go to work, yell at your boss over the phone and spill said coffee all over the table which you will then play around with until the coffee dries.

Ahhh... the simple joys of living the life of a Modern Greek...
Title: Doin it greek style'
Post by: Medieve on November 04, 2008, 09:51:09 am: You are aggravating, asking this question at 3:00 in the morning! I'm going to bed, next time post earlier >_>
Title: Doin it greek style'
Post by: Wash Cycle on November 04, 2008, 06:29:00 pm: I will be able to do this in like 5-10 years or so but I am afraid I cant help you much now lol
Title: Doin it greek style'
Post by: Barack Obama on November 05, 2008, 01:20:38 am: Quote from: climbtree on November 04, 2008, 08:05:34 am
Hey you know what I think would be a really neat ability? Interpreting themes and characters in Greek and Roman art and literature. It would be pretty impressive to pick up a peice of pottery and say "hey, this one's Zeus. See that squiggle? Thunderbolt."

It would be impressive and useful, especially tommorow, when I have an exam on this and I'm horrible at it. Any tips?
start with reading your course materials instead of asking a videogame forum

heh that one is on the house... I'll have to charge you for more
Title: Doin it greek style'
Post by: Frisky SKeleton on November 05, 2008, 10:00:59 am: this was a third year paper and they expected you to have some background knowledge i guess because i actually read everything on the greeks at least and most of the stuff on the romans. like there wasn't even a LIST OF GODS AND THEIR SYMBOLS or HOW TO IDENTIFY HESTIA it was just really general stuff at best. probably wanted me to find my own stuff but why would i go to college if i wanted to do that!

i was secretly hoping someone would come in with some huge secret, but i couldn't tell a dude with a stick from hermes.

greek sculpture though, pretty cool
Title: Doin it greek style'
Post by: Blitzen on November 07, 2008, 05:09:24 am: I did my third year Classical Studies paper on colonialism in the Archaic period and how the Greeks had a variety of colonial contacts, and how Greek customs shaped thier views of the cultures they came into contact with. The focus was mainly on the dichotomy and representations of Scythains and Thracians, but I also covered Egyptians, Celts, and Phoenicians.

Btw Hermes is usually depicted wearing a wide-brimmed traveller's hat, and has wings on his ankles. His fancy stick is called a caduceus.

I know its too late now but sometimes if you have a picture test, you'll get lucky and the potter/artist will have written the guy's name on the vase.