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Reply 1540
Original post by medbh4805
nice. I'm doing Thucydides book 7 as well :pierre:

y u hate him? :holmes:


anything Greek exam/Classical Studies exam related, I've always studied Thucydides as part of it. I've done bk.1, 2, 5,7 and now ten. AND THOSE ARE THE ONES I CAN REMEMBER!

Well obviously, the guy is a genius, a turning point in historical writing etc etc...but most of the subject matter, for me anyway, is quite dull. It also really really smacks of 'written by a man for men', if that makes sense :frown: . Also, I really don't like his style when you read it in Greek...it's so much more complicated than need be, dry and manly. Homer is where it's at :perv: (or just anything drama/poetry)
Reply 1541
Original post by medbh4805
Well so nice for you and your one subject :hand:

I have so much revision to do and yet I procrastinate so much :facepalm2:



I had my subjects last year girlfriend! :hand: You chose your doom....:colone:

How much do you have left to revise? Are your exams spaced out ok? I had higher Greek and Advanced Higher History on the same day last year.....oh my god I have never been so sick or nervous in my life D:
Original post by Frey
This is such a lovehate relationship. :colondollar:

:unimpressed:

I know, but your knowledge of bums will be v. superior. :wink: You'll do fine ducky, just read your set list and maybe some critiques!

I don't know why I bother. :albertein:

I LOVE BATHS. Wellllll, I'll go omnomnomomm something, I'm hungry. Work said they might call me to come in for a couple of hours... whatever that means :grumble: then just seriously slog out this Trojan women stuff. I'll do the Greek this afternoon, then read all the English stuff in my bed at nighty time :colondollar: I should also write out lots of Greek grammar and I want to read the rest of this interesting chapter I found in a book about Persian/Zoroastrian mythology :colondollar:....yes my life is just one non-stop party. :s


Of course; they're the only kind I know...talkhand: :colondollar:

Ahahahahahahaha...:sigh: I leant it all from you...I hope so, I have a self-compiled reading list to work my way through prior to coming - but I'm working through it at a very slow rate.

Nor I...:tongue: :rolleyes:

Likewise, hence why I'm having one...:woo: Oh, one has to love the employer's ability to call the employee into work at any hour of the day. :erm: Wow, is it sad that that actually sounds rather interesting? At least that'll be that...then you'll just have to wait for more work...:tongue: It's still more of a party than mine...:frown:
Reply 1543
Original post by KingMessi
Of course; they're the only kind I know...talkhand: :colondollar:

Ahahahahahahaha...:sigh: I leant it all from you...I hope so, I have a self-compiled reading list to work my way through prior to coming - but I'm working through it at a very slow rate.

Nor I...:tongue: :rolleyes:

Likewise, hence why I'm having one...:woo: Oh, one has to love the employer's ability to call the employee into work at any hour of the day. :erm: Wow, is it sad that that actually sounds rather interesting? At least that'll be that...then you'll just have to wait for more work...:tongue: It's still more of a party than mine...:frown:


:talkhand: bitch.

I like a good bit of writing, hate it when you just have to read and read and read through lots of books cover to cover (have fun with your next three years :sexface:)
Mythology/religion/folklore are probably my favourites :h: (and with that weird philosophy and epic poems). I think if I ever do post.grad. it'll be eastern religions fo sho :drool: (I mean I love my best bud Greek, but we're just best buds, y'know? :frown:)

once when I was really fed up and bored I just made a bowl of butter icing and ate it.........
Reply 1544
Original post by KingMessi


Yes, that's true - being able to get close on full marks in coursework modules does alleviate the pressure a bit when it comes to the exams, I suppose. Erm(I assume you mean the fee rise)...I think had I not got into Oxford, then it definitely would have been a bad decision to take a Gap Year, but now I have, I couldn't care less about the extra fees (for now :erm: ). That shall probably change, though. I can't say I've been doing much; mostly working and wishing the time away since December - rather like you.

Which festivals do you intend to go to?


Yeah that was what I was alluding to, although Oxford do give some pretty sweet bursaries and reduced fees :biggrin: It must be so nice to have an unconditional offer, I always thought if I'd taken a gap year I would have spent it reading everything I've not had the chance to.

I'm stewarding for Oxfam so I'm doing quite a few, in fact, I really hope it's a dry summer as I'm only spending about a week not in a tent in two months :erm: The bigs ones are Latitude, Leeds, Bestival and Boomtown. Are you going to any?
Original post by Frey
:talkhand: bitch.

I like a good bit of writing, hate it when you just have to read and read and read through lots of books cover to cover (have fun with your next three years :sexface:)
Mythology/religion/folklore are probably my favourites :h: (and with that weird philosophy and epic poems). I think if I ever do post.grad. it'll be eastern religions fo sho :drool: (I mean I love my best bud Greek, but we're just best buds, y'know? :frown:)

once when I was really fed up and bored I just made a bowl of butter icing and ate it.........


Bitch?! Don't you have work to do?! :mad:

Yes, I like that as well - I have a lot of fun analysing books and writing essays on them, less so reading them. Oh, I shall have fun with my next three years. English is, to paraphrase, a 'complete don of a subject'. :awesome: :tongue: Oh, you're planning for Postgraduate Study already? I really want to do Postgraduate, but have no idea what I want to do it on. :erm: You can't reject your best friend!

When I'm bored I try and write but end up just staring into space.

Original post by zog
Yeah that was what I was alluding to, although Oxford do give some pretty sweet bursaries and reduced fees :biggrin: It must be so nice to have an unconditional offer, I always thought if I'd taken a gap year I would have spent it reading everything I've not had the chance to.

I'm stewarding for Oxfam so I'm doing quite a few, in fact, I really hope it's a dry summer as I'm only spending about a week not in a tent in two months :erm: The bigs ones are Latitude, Leeds, Bestival and Boomtown. Are you going to any?


Oh, they do? I thought that they were just for international students? I doubt I'd qualify for any bursary. Yes, it is extremely nice to not feel any added pressure (i.e. exams on top of having to get into Oxford). Last year I got five rejections and didn't want anything through Extra so I didn't really have any pressure to meet grades. It's been great to have had the time to read...

Oh, that's cool - that sounds really interesting. Well, British summers are famed for being capricious, so...bring an umbrella. :tongue: No, I must say I've never been to any...:erm: I nearly won a chance to recite poetry at Latitude, but...there we go...
Reply 1546
Original post by KingMessi
Bitch?! Don't you have work to do?! :mad:

Yes, I like that as well - I have a lot of fun analysing books and writing essays on them, less so reading them. Oh, I shall have fun with my next three years. English is, to paraphrase, a 'complete don of a subject'. :awesome: :tongue: Oh, you're planning for Postgraduate Study already? I really want to do Postgraduate, but have no idea what I want to do it on. :erm: You can't reject your best friend!

When I'm bored I try and write but end up just staring into space.


stop your woofin'and hoofin'! :unimpressed:

well not planning but it's an option I'm really considering. Like of course my degree would get me any good humanities/publishing related thing, but I want my job to relate to my studies, and want to really really work on the languages I have in my loser profile; can you think of many jobs with Sanskrit as a requirement? :s-smilie: unless I wanted to become a wandering sadhu or something....

well my best friend Greeky has loooots of interaction with the east, so don't worry Messi :colondollar:
Original post by zog
Yeah that was what I was alluding to, although Oxford do give some pretty sweet bursaries and reduced fees :biggrin: It must be so nice to have an unconditional offer, I always thought if I'd taken a gap year I would have spent it reading everything I've not had the chance to.

I'm stewarding for Oxfam so I'm doing quite a few, in fact, I really hope it's a dry summer as I'm only spending about a week not in a tent in two months :erm: The bigs ones are Latitude, Leeds, Bestival and Boomtown. Are you going to any?


ahh you're going to boomtown?! jealoouss i really wanna go, some of my friends went last year and it looked mint but i dont have anyone to go with haha. i'm going to leeds also!
Original post by Frey
anything Greek exam/Classical Studies exam related, I've always studied Thucydides as part of it. I've done bk.1, 2, 5,7 and now ten. AND THOSE ARE THE ONES I CAN REMEMBER!

Well obviously, the guy is a genius, a turning point in historical writing etc etc...but most of the subject matter, for me anyway, is quite dull. It also really really smacks of 'written by a man for men', if that makes sense :frown: . Also, I really don't like his style when you read it in Greek...it's so much more complicated than need be, dry and manly. Homer is where it's at :perv: (or just anything drama/poetry)


Ouch, fair enough. I did Herodotus at GCSE, and Lysias at AS, so I've had a fair bit of variation with my prose authors. As for verse it was Odyssey book 9 at GCSE and Iliad book 16 for AS so this is the first time I've ever studied a Greek play (though I've been reading Antigone on the side for fun :ninja:). Does advanced higher have a set unseen author? :holmes: Our unseens come from Sophocles and I am currently bricking it. I mean, seriously, Sophocles. It's just cruel man :cry2:

What's wrong with manly literature? pfft you're probably just too bound up in your eastern religions and their professions of peace and love and stuff :colonhash:
You're right about it being more complicated than necessary. Thucydides y ur sentence structures so convoluted :frown:
Original post by Frey
I had my subjects last year girlfriend! :hand: You chose your doom....:colone:

How much do you have left to revise? Are your exams spaced out ok? I had higher Greek and Advanced Higher History on the same day last year.....oh my god I have never been so sick or nervous in my life D:


Well I'm pretty well prepared for my first exam (maths D1 - 96% in my last past paper :smug: ). The week after that I have history, french oral and my french reading/listening/literature and after that they're pretty well spaced. History I have my notes learnt, currently just working on essay writing/exam technique/source analysis :s-smilie:. I have let to learn my my french lit notes and I need to do a lot more prep for my oral but I'll get there :erm: (I hope :afraid: )
Original post by Frey
stop your woofin'and hoofin'! :unimpressed:

well not planning but it's an option I'm really considering. Like of course my degree would get me any good humanities/publishing related thing, but I want my job to relate to my studies, and want to really really work on the languages I have in my loser profile; can you think of many jobs with Sanskrit as a requirement? :s-smilie: unless I wanted to become a wandering sadhu or something....

well my best friend Greeky has loooots of interaction with the east, so don't worry Messi :colondollar:


Whilst I don't care for the sentiment, that's your best rhyme so far...:tongue:

Okay, well, at least you have a plan, which is more than I have. I guess it depends upon what you want to do later on - what's your dream job? :smile: Do you want to work abroad?

Hmm, you could be a Sanskrit literary critic? Or a Sanskrit haiku writer? :smile: :tongue:

Oh, well, that's good - I'm now reassured...my name is Jack, by the way - in case you were wondering. As much as I'd love for one of my names to be 'Messi', none of them are...:colondollar:
Reply 1551
Original post by medbh4805
Ouch, fair enough. I did Herodotus at GCSE, and Lysias at AS, so I've had a fair bit of variation with my prose authors. As for verse it was Odyssey book 9 at GCSE and Iliad book 16 for AS so this is the first time I've ever studied a Greek play (though I've been reading Antigone on the side for fun :ninja:). Does advanced higher have a set unseen author? :holmes: Our unseens come from Sophocles and I am currently bricking it. I mean, seriously, Sophocles. It's just cruel man :cry2:

What's wrong with manly literature? pfft you're probably just too bound up in your eastern religions and their professions of peace and love and stuff :colonhash:
You're right about it being more complicated than necessary. Thucydides y ur sentence structures so convoluted :frown:


Sounds like a good bunch :B For Advanced Higher Classical Studies it was all all historiography, so we did Herodotus, Thucyidides, Polybius, Livy and Tacitus, woz fun :colondollar: Antigone is really good, I kind of want to slap Antigone round the face sometimes though, is that ok? :s-smilie: Yes, we have a Homer unseen and a Thucydides unseen. You'll be okay I'm sure :hugs: and it counts for only part of your exam anyway :tongue:

like overly manly.. it's hard to explain. It's not like Homer, which is manly, but Thucydides is bragging manly...like 'ohmygosh, I a man, I'm so clever :pierre:'
yeh, y u so convoluted? :frown: It's sometimes impossible to know who/what he's talking about because the grammar carries on from the last sentence, which is usually like 5 lines long....:coma:

woah whoah whoahwoahowhoah. Buddhism, Jainism, fine, but with Hinduism some pretty bad **** goes down with young princes roaming all over the place cutting off demon's noses and making their wives throw themselves into pyres.:horse:
Reply 1552
Original post by KingMessi
Whilst I don't care for the sentiment, that's your best rhyme so far...:tongue:

Okay, well, at least you have a plan, which is more than I have. I guess it depends upon what you want to do later on - what's your dream job? :smile: Do you want to work abroad?

Hmm, you could be a Sanskrit literary critic? Or a Sanskrit haiku writer? :smile: :tongue:

Oh, well, that's good - I'm now reassured...my name is Jack, by the way - in case you were wondering. As much as I'd love for one of my names to be 'Messi', none of them are...:colondollar:


:colondollar:

hahah...uhhh dream job. Well to be honest, I really really really don't want to be in the limelight. I'm not a Mary Beard/ David Attenborough if that makes sense. :dontknow: If it were up to me, I'd like to be a nice down to earth professor in eastern languages/religion/folklore, who wrote a couple of pretty good books. I wouldn't mind working abroad, but it would totally depend where I was. I really like living in Scotland, the ethos here suits me (i.e can have a good laugh/ don't take anything too seriously/ quite socialist). When I was in Georgia this year (from December till Feb) and no one else had English as their first language, I felt a bit out of place and out of place culture-wise as well; I'm usually really good with dealing with new situations and stuff, but on the long haul it really hits you. I love traveling, but I think I'd like to settle in the UK or a country abroad which is similar culture-wise. What about yourself? :smile:

haha, oh yes the great demand for Sanskrit Haiku writers :holmes:

haha, ok, hello jack :colone: if you can guess what my name is I'll give you a bagillion pounds :holmes:
Reply 1553
Original post by medbh4805
Well I'm pretty well prepared for my first exam (maths D1 - 96% in my last past paper :smug: ). The week after that I have history, french oral and my french reading/listening/literature and after that they're pretty well spaced. History I have my notes learnt, currently just working on essay writing/exam technique/source analysis :s-smilie:. I have let to learn my my french lit notes and I need to do a lot more prep for my oral but I'll get there :erm: (I hope :afraid: )


4% tutututut....haaa, jokes. My maths is abysmal:colondollar:

You'll be fine I'm sure :hugs:

(I've translated 3 pages of Trojan women :'D )
Original post by Frey
:colondollar:

hahah...uhhh dream job. Well to be honest, I really really really don't want to be in the limelight. I'm not a Mary Beard/ David Attenborough if that makes sense. :dontknow: If it were up to me, I'd like to be a nice down to earth professor in eastern languages/religion/folklore, who wrote a couple of pretty good books. I wouldn't mind working abroad, but it would totally depend where I was. I really like living in Scotland, the ethos here suits me (i.e can have a good laugh/ don't take anything too seriously/ quite socialist). When I was in Georgia this year (from December till Feb) and no one else had English as their first language, I felt a bit out of place and out of place culture-wise as well; I'm usually really good with dealing with new situations and stuff, but on the long haul it really hits you. I love traveling, but I think I'd like to settle in the UK or a country abroad which is similar culture-wise. What about yourself? :smile:

haha, oh yes the great demand for Sanskrit Haiku writers :holmes:

haha, ok, hello jack :colone: if you can guess what my name is I'll give you a bagillion pounds :holmes:


Well, that's fair enough. :smile: Can you think of any topics in particular that you'd like to write books on? So you live in Scotland currently? You lived in Georgia? That must have been fascinating? I can imagine that you did; I couldn't imagine living in a East European nation...but I'm fairly unadventurous, I suppose. So America, New Zealand, Australia, etc?

I'm the opposite - I'd really like to be known, somehow. My ambition ('dream' makes it sound far too unlikely. :frown: ) is to be a novelist, and a good one - but no luck thus far. Given I'm not likely to ever be able to write for a living, journalism appeals to me. Having said that, whilst I'd love to be good enough to write for a living, so long as I'm comfortable and have no especial monetary issues, I'd be happy. :smile:

Haha, who knows - you may start a trend? :tongue: :holmes:

Hmm, give me a moment to deduce that one...('Bagillion' is not an accepted monetary unit. :pierre: )
Original post by medbh4805
nice. I'm doing Thucydides book 7 as well :pierre:

y u hate him? :holmes:


Original post by Frey
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Sorry, one of those incredibly creepy moments when a lurker pops up and posts...

I'm thinking about going to a public lecture on Thucydides offered by Bristol Uni in June because I tend to like Classical History/ free lectures, but have not actually read anything by him as of this moment in time. Worth finding out more or is he really that objectionale? :colondollar:
Original post by Kalliope
Sorry, one of those incredibly creepy moments when a lurker pops up and posts...

I'm thinking about going to a public lecture on Thucydides offered by Bristol Uni in June because I tend to like Classical History/ free lectures, but have not actually read anything by him as of this moment in time. Worth finding out more or is he really that objectionale? :colondollar:


'She doesn't even go here!' :tongue:

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Original post by KingMessi
'She doesn't even go here!' :tongue:

Spoiler



I loove Mean Girls though! :grin:
Original post by Kalliope
I loove Mean Girls though! :grin:


Glad to hear it; that makes me feel much better about ignoring your initial query. :rolleyes: :biggrin:
Reply 1559
Original post by KingMessi
Well, that's fair enough. :smile: Can you think of any topics in particular that you'd like to write books on? So you live in Scotland currently? You lived in Georgia? That must have been fascinating? I can imagine that you did; I couldn't imagine living in a East European nation...but I'm fairly unadventurous, I suppose. So America, New Zealand, Australia, etc?

I'm the opposite - I'd really like to be known, somehow. My ambition ('dream' makes it sound far too unlikely. :frown: ) is to be a novelist, and a good one - but no luck thus far. Given I'm not likely to ever be able to write for a living, journalism appeals to me. Having said that, whilst I'd love to be good enough to write for a living, so long as I'm comfortable and have no especial monetary issues, I'd be happy. :smile:

Haha, who knows - you may start a trend? :tongue: :holmes:

Hmm, give me a moment to deduce that one...('Bagillion' is not an accepted monetary unit. :pierre: )


Well I like writing silly fictional stories, but chances of getting that published=0.
Weird kooky academic books, I thought a nice one (probably been done before though) is like 'Trees in mythology and folklore', because most major Indo-European cultures have this 'tree of life', which bears fruit which makes you a. live longer b. gives you knowledge. So for example (although obviously the Bible isn't Indo-european) you have the Tree of Knowledge and the forbidden fruit, in Norse Mythology you have Yggdrasil (tree of life) and Idun with her golden apples (sound familar Medbh :wink:?) who provides them to the gods to keep them young, and then there's obviously Greek mythology with the tree with the golden apples and Persian mythology has this tree too, who's apples give knowledge and life (strangely, like Yggdrasil the Norse tree, it has a little lizardy dragon thing trying to kill the tree). Of course this is a very brushed over explanation, there are plenty more cultures/ similarities that could be made, but it's things like that I find particularly interesting :colondollar:

Yes I'm in Scotland at the moment, but going back east in a few weeks :holmes:
Trust me, living in Georgia was a real eye-opener. It was so openly corrupt and difficult to get anything it was really quite sad, but everything else was amazing (maybe apart from their diet, which was SERIOUSLY carnivorous and alcoholic :sick:) Read back a few pages on this thread if you like to see where I ranted about their traditions/ culture which is very interesting :colondollar:
they really hang onto their roots, but are a tad sexist....it's almost quite funny. Literally what men do is just stand around with their arms crossed smoking in groups haha. Once when I was on an archaelogical dig there, our well stopped working... no man rushed to fix it and freaked out Western style, instead 6 guys all stood in a circle tutting with their arms crossed and staring at it for like 20 minutes haha I went hitch hiking a lot too (it's how I like to travel) and you meet a lot of nut bars and nice people (my friend and I were given a litre bottle of beer since some guys didn't have enough room for us in their car :colondollar:)also got a lift in a beast of a Soviet coal truck.. shakiest thing I've ever been in haha. Got two christmases and two new years thanks to the orthodox calender and stayed in a flat with no heating and water never hotter than 20 degrees in winter :redface:


go chase the dream Jack! It's worth a shot, like all these things. Deffo won't happen if you don't try. :colondollar:

well in 'bum land' it might not be :pierre:

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