Firstly, Tharavel should be up now, thanks to Putty and the school network. Try http://dwip.alsherok.net/downloads/Tharavelnew.zip and wait for a while, because it's a 3 meg download. Should be a .doc and a .fcw inside. For those of you with CC2, the .fcw will be nifty, otherwise you'll just have to live with the less good map in the .doc. Speaking of the .doc, it's like 80 pages, and uses columns, tables, and all sorts of pretty bizzare stuff. For those of you not using Word, well, it may or may not work. *shrug* In any case, enjoy, and you know where the email is to drop me comments and questions and such on it.
Secondly, I saw Romeo and Juliet at the Globe. It kicked enormous amounts of ass. But more on that next time I write a real blog entry.
Thirdly, and probably everyone who's not Regina/Marechal can tune out at this point, I got a pretty big reading list from Dr. Garfinkle on various historical topics. So I will just go ahead and post a big chunk of it here, especially because I'll lose the papers otherwise. So:
Titles, names, everything's way subject to inaccuracy and mispelling.
Briant, Pierre. History of the Persian Empire - General survey of Persian history.
Kemp, Barry. Egypt: Anatomy of a Civilization - Egyptian culture and thought, and maybe a survey.
Harris, W.V. War and Imperialism in Republican Rome - Overview of the RR.
MacMullen, Ramsey - Multiple books on the Late Roman Empire
Mary Boatwright, et. al. Rome: From Village to Empire
Leob Classical Library - Best translations of classical sources. Failing that, modern Penguin editions, and I stress modern because there are multiple versions half the time.
From HST 417: The First Empires: Imperialism in the Ancient World
Doyle, Michael. Empires
Mann, Michael. The Sources of Social Power, Volume I
Well, Colin. The Roman Empire
Garnsey, Peter, and Saller, Richard. The Roman Empire
Kuhrt, Amelie. The Ancient Near East
Larsen, M.T. Power and Propaganda
Luckenbill, Daniel David. Ancient Records of Assyria and Babylonia
Sasson, J.M. Civilizations of the Ancient Near East
From HST 311: History of Ancient Egypt
Grimal, Nicholas. A History of Ancient Egypt
Manley, Bill. Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Egypt - I have the Greek and Roman ones of these, and they're cool.
Parkinson, R.B. The Tale of Sinuhe and Other Ancient Egyptian Poems - Which I happen to have for the ANE class now. And it's good.
Redford, Donald B. The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt
There should be a Rome syllabus coming soon, too. Woot.
Posted by Dwip at June 3, 2004 6:12 AMAnd don't forget to watch History of the World part 1.
Posted by: Whir at June 3, 2004 12:57 PMLoeb! Loeb! Loeb! Not Leob!
*beats Marius*
And historical atlases rock.
Posted by: Regina at June 3, 2004 2:42 PMWoot, I got credit for helping in Tharavel :P
Good job on it though, I'll have to read the ginormous history section so I can figure out which main bases to assault by level 5.
Posted by: Clyos at June 4, 2004 10:26 AMOne of these days, I do need to see that movie.
Also, I can spell.
And when you do assault the main base of the highest-leveled evil badguy in the world, and it will become pretty much apparent who that is right off, just remember: The giants ARE on fire. Or frosty. Or shooting fire from their eyes and lightning bolts from their arses. They're never JUST giants.
Posted by: Dwip at June 4, 2004 1:08 PMDIRE ELK!!!!
Posted by: Whir at June 4, 2004 8:01 PMThe Dire Elk with Flamestrike.
Posted by: Clyos at June 5, 2004 1:20 AM