Aglaia

[Rystil Arden]

... Yes, that makes a big difference. If I would've read it my junior year of high school, it wouldn't have been nearly as intimidating. And I'd've had a big-ish paper under my belt too.

Don't get me wrong. I didn't actually read it in college when it was assigned. I was still working from memory based on reading it the summer after fourth-grade

 

[Jdvn1]

I can't say I wasn't toying with the idea when I had to choose between here (where we don't have that majour) and Harvard, which does have a Folklore and Mythology majour. Unfortunately, though, Harvard does not allow double majours, only joint-majours where you have to prove that the two subjects can be combined together intelligently. So I was chatting with a Harvard prof about their department, and he said that a lot of people Joint-Majoured, so I said, "Can you joint-majour *anything* with CS?" and he said, "Well as long as you don't try to do something silly and crazy like, I don't know, Computer Science and Folklore+Mythology, you should be OK."

"What if I want to eventually program a game based on Greek Mythology?"

 

[Jdvn1]

Don't get me wrong. I didn't actually read it in college when it was assigned. I was still working from memory based on reading it the summer after fourth-grade

Bah. We couldn't have done Arthurian legends. I used to know Le Morte like the back of my hand.

 

[Rystil Arden]

"What if I want to eventually program a game based on Greek Mythology?"

You thinka game is good enough for even a normal majour?

You know...I just realised that the Off-Topic title is "May Memories" this month. That means I'm definitely going to put up Mnemosyne as my poem next week, then. Seems appropriate.

 

[Rystil Arden]

Bah. We couldn't have done Arthurian legends. I used to know Le Morte like the back of my hand.

Funny you should mention that...I'm in an "Arthurian Literature and Celtic Colonisation" class this semester

Its been pretty fun, especially considering the time I did three weeks of Arthurian research over the summer to create my homebrew Post-Arthurian campaign setting.

Of course, Le Morte d'Arthur by Mallory is merely the idle pondering of a convicted rapist; the true Arthur stuff is much earlier

 

[Jdvn1]

You thinka game is good enough for even a normal majour?

You know...I just realised that the Off-Topic title is "May Memories" this month. That means I'm definitely going to put up Mnemosyne as my poem next week, then. Seems appropriate.

... It's not? UT-Dallas has multiple courses devoted to game programming. It's certainly enough for a graduate degree.

Yeah, each month has a different theme. The more poems you post, the more fuel I have for my bards.

 

[Jdvn1]

Funny you should mention that...I'm in an "Arthurian Literature and Celtic Colonisation" class this semester

Its been pretty fun, especially considering the time I did three weeks of Arthurian research over the summer to create my homebrew Post-Arthurian campaign setting.

Of course, Le Morte d'Arthur by Mallory is merely the idle pondering of a convicted rapist; the true Arthur stuff is much earlier

My school can't have that? Ay. I don't need to take any literature classes, though, other than the basics. I'm not a huge fan of the historical stuff, though -- just the Mythos. The ties to Celtic Colonization probably wouldn't interest me as much.

Well, Le Morte is the first written Arthur stuff, as far as I understand. Earlier, it was an oral tradition.

 

[Rystil Arden]

Well, Le Morte is the first written Arthur stuff, as far as I understand. Earlier, it was an oral tradition.

::Buzz:: Wrong. By a lot

Le Morte D'Arthur is the last written Arthur stuff, before the avant garde Arthur writers, whom I don't count as Arthurian.

No offense meant, of course by the first line. However, we spent our semester reading sources all of which were older than Le Morte d'Arthur

 

[Rystil Arden]

... It's not? UT-Dallas has multiple courses devoted to game programming. It's certainly enough for a graduate degree.

Yeah, each month has a different theme. The more poems you post, the more fuel I have for my bards.

Its not something that gets by at the more serious universities, though (not saying better, because there's little evidence that the so-called "top" colleges are actually better, but I think I can call them "more serious" about themselves without offending)

 

[Jdvn1]

::Buzz:: Wrong. By a lot

Le Morte D'Arthur is the last written Arthur stuff, before the avant garde Arthur writers, whom I don't count as Arthurian.

No offense meant, of course by the first line. However, we spent our semester reading sources all of which were older than Le Morte d'Arthur

Examples?