angelduck said:
they'd be able tot ell you the most popular topics
Hmm, I'm not sure if that's a moot point. classics_nut does Greek stuff, so that's what she'd be writing about.
Anyway, according to my notes, the most popular
personalities (in order of popularity) are:
Hatshepsut < Agrippina < Xerxes < Julius Caesar < Akhenaten < Perikles < Cleopatra < Ramses II < Alexander < etc.
They don't give exact positions on
societies, but these are the most popular:
NKE, Sparta, Minoan and Rome. If I were to guess, I'd say that it would go:
Sparta < Minoan < NKE < Rome.
Greece is the most popular
Period; not sure which
Apparently, Egypt's the second most popular for the, with Ahmose - Thutmose being the second most popular, then Amenhotep - Ramses being the third.
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I find it odd that Hatshepsut is the most popular personality, but the period she belongs to is not the most studied. Usually, experienced teachers wouldn't get you to study more than two geographic locations (ie, Egypt, Rome, Greece, etc).
As you can see, Greece is hugely popular, and I would say to classics_nut that she should do a textbook soley on Greece.
I would probably advise that she would
only include Perikles and Alexander (and not Cleopatra...), both Bronze Age societies (Minoan and Mycenean) as well as Sparta and Periklean Athens, and all three Greek Worlds (500-440, 446-399, and 300s-Alex).