Recent content by ancient_nut

I teach at James An too, I tutor English. It does help, I teach the kiddies (the ones I teach there are mostly primary school) how to write essays and how to think. There's a lot that can be taught when tutoring English. It's a lot harder to tutor than maths, you need to use your imagination...

The role of women is very important, they made up 50% or more of the population! *grumbles incoherently about the state of feminism in this country*

:) Just because I like Greece doesn't mean I don't appreciate the glories of areas unappreciated by the West in general. My project in year 12 looked at the sometimes squalid nature of ancient Greece and how Europeans have transformed it into something quite different, something almost divine...

I'm also available for extensive holiday tuition between this Friday (today's the 14th of November) and the beginning of March :)

A lot of first years are still kids, let's face it... It's not really about how long you've been at uni, though, it's about the experience you've had with students. And tutors who've had lots of students AND keep up with the syllabus (like me- shameless plug) are far better than those who've...

I think this will be hard to do for some subjects, especially the smaller ones and especially arts. For example, most places offer English but is it Anglo-Saxon or Literature and Cinema that you're looking for? How will you be able to search between? Also, how will you be able to deal with...

Greece is my area, although I think I know enough about Rome to be able to write about some of it with the help of books. I'd appreciate if you'd use the screen name given, or use my real name (it's Amy). The most popular area isn't necessarily the one people need the most help with. Some...

I'm trying to help people, excuse me for trying to be nice. If I manage to publish, all well and good (money going towards classics at universities), if not, I might put it online. I was trying to get input, not abuse. Thank you.

And another :) Foucalt is a gold mine for ideas on the nature of history- the transcripts of some of his lectures (in a book titled "Society Must be Defended" are especially useful for the way in which the nature of history has changed from being the property of the ruling class, to the...

I don't deem that worthy of a response.

considering I don't agree with classics_chic in entirety, I don't know how you can say that I am this person. Unless I have multiple personalities, of course.

I have no idea sorry, I only did it at uni where we focussed on the role of Homer and Hesiod. Ask yourselves (or your teacher) whether they're within the scope.

I think I know what you're saying. For societies, if you're doing one, you answer in section 2, the source based section. If you're doing 2, you get a choice between source based and essay- you do one of each. However, I have no idea how the 2006 on thing works. Should look into that...

Social Classes in Sparta I don't know as much as I should on this area but a great book to read is one by Luraghi and Alcock on the helots- it reexamines all the information we have. See "Texts to Use Instead of Pamela Bradley" for the title, classics_chic has obviously read it as well :P

I love love love Ancient History. I read it in my spare time, I think about it a lot, I'm studying the max my uni will let me. (no, I don't have a life :P) I did Mycenae, Greece 500-440, Caesar and the Fall of the Republic in year 12. I looked forward to Mycenae and Greece the most, and...