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    Texts To Use Instead of Pamela Bradley

    As it happens, it is. I've got more than enough students at the moment, and became sick of whinging so-and-sos such as yourself. Ancient_nut is a classmate of mine, and after she sms-ed me about this, I decided to log back on. Don't be so pathetic. We're here to help people, not to...
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    The Problem of Pamela Bradley

    What did you say about my course?! Fossilised? I disagree. They're being revitalised at the moment, but they're not fossilised at all. Yes, some of the lecturers are a little old, but they're really funny and clearly up-to-date (my lecturer today compared Roman imperialism to Brogden...
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    Assignment Confusion

    Also look at the way in which women were pictured, and the way in which their role was glorified/ not (this would show either encouragement of women to do it, or a man's hatred for it, or perhaps a way in which the women- if they have any kind of power- are placated into fulfilling their roles)...
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    greek world 500-440 BC

    NB: A person is a historian when they write in a constructive way within the historical tradition. Bradley doesn't fit into that criteria (and why are you writing this in the Greece 500-440 post, anyway?). This can include the bardic tradition- although it's not "wie es eigentlich gewesen"...
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    greek world 500-440 BC

    Exactly. I don't say it's wrong to write it one way, I say it's wrong to take the choice away. Seriously, the stakes are pretty low here. What's the fight about? I may hate to be told I'm wrong (especially when I'm not), but it's still absolutely ridiculous to mount a fight like this...
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    greek world 500-440 BC

    Swearing: real mature. And again referring back to sexist measures in order to bolster your own self esteem. Doing wonders for men there, you are. Can we please cut this hostility garbage and stick to legitimate intellectual debate? In order to understand that some concepts have evolved...
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    The Problem of Pamela Bradley

    Re: PwarYuex I didn't intend to put any of this into an essay. This is a discussion, and anyone who knows anything about ancient history beyond a junior level knows you don't get resources straight from the web (unless they're links to scholarly articles, which this clearly is not)! I don't...
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    greek world 500-440 BC

    I meant hubris. It's spelt with a u in the Greek (which I have done), like Herodotos isn't. I'd put the correct spelling up, but the font isn't compatible with the site. But I'll tell you it anyway: it's upsilon (u) with a rough breathing (reads "h" at the start of the word), beta (b), rho...
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    The Problem of Pamela Bradley

    My reasoning was clearly emotional and not subject to analysis. Although you're right in saying that they're different types of material (Bradley being a commentary and Herodotos a source- get your terminology right, you're not in high school anymore), my point was that Herodotos provides...
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    greek world 500-440 BC

    In the ten years between Marathon and Xerxes' hubristic adventures (main Persian War), the silver mines were found in Athens. The democrats wanted to give the money to the citizens, but Themistokles convinced them to build ships. It was these ships that gave Athens some of their earliest...
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    The Problem of Pamela Bradley

    Very true, Silvermoon. She's a good summary (although there are better: Bury and Meiggs for Greece, for example, and Scullard's two books for Rome), but don't quote her. As I've said from the start. Also, be careful of accuracy of information: some of it's summarised to the point of...
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    Dot points in Ancient Essays??

    Only if desperate. If you have five minutes left and half an essay to write, then do it. You need to get your points across. Otherwise, as Magister said, at your peril. It's not a good look.
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    Delian League to empire and war

    The Athenians may not have sought an empire but could not let it go. How accurate is this statement and to what extent is Athenian imperialism a cause of the war You have a couple of issues to deal with: The Athenians may not have sought an empire I'm not sure that's true. The sinking...
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    Need Help with King Lear Assessment

    I won't write about the form here but here's how I'd answer that question: Why does Shakespeare have the capacity to remain our contemporary? Because his works contain values that are still important to us today. What values? There are plenty of them: loyalty (Kent), family values (Lear...
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    What to look for when analysing TTT texts?

    In related material, you need to find talk or doubt about truth telling, what it is and how it's found, either explicitly (as in a historiography text) or not (as in many works of fiction). You need to explore what the truth is represented as, and how the representation of material alters the...
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    film noir films

    A lot of the American crime fiction shows on now have elements of film noir, particularly the ones set in New York. Also look at more recent British crime fiction (MIT, The Bill, and others) for the Brit's reply to hard-bitten. Very interesting contrast, and sometimes the Brit's version is...
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    Telling the Truth - Can they specify texts?

    Yes. They can specify which poem in Birthday Letters (I think it's poetry, sorry if I'm wrong), which episode of Frontline, and which chapter of The Justice Game (and same goes for other options in Module C). You're supposed to study all of them so they're perfectly in their rights to ask you...
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    How many Supplementary Texts???

    You need to talk about one, maybe two (they'll usually ask for 'texts', which means more than one). But you should have between three and four up your sleeve- what if they ask a question, and you have no idea what to write with some of your related material? Better to be safe than sorry...
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    BoS USyd Roll 2005

    BArts (Ancient History/ English)
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