![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
We Didn't Have Ears
Eeeheehee.
So last week in Historiography, we were reading Herodotus (highly recommended, btw) and we came to a very puzzling passage concerning usurpers of thrones and Magi and ears. Yes, that's right. Ears. Or lacks thereof. Said passage can be found here (Do a "find on page" and search for "phaedima" - read from "In the eight month" for three or four paragraphs to get the interesting bit.) It seems that Magi, apparently, had no ears, and this was common accepted knowledge - at least to Herodotus.
So I raised my hand and asked why the Magi had no ears. I was serious, now, but it provoked a whole series of tangential comments, including someone telling us very seriously that in Virginia, they have no ears.
I couldn't help it; I had to write a story about it. So I did, from the end of that class into the beginning of my Democracy class. It's not awfully good - I haven't edited it or fixed it or tried to make it entirely sensible or historically accurate - I guessed on most of the historical details and didn't bother to look them up. But it is highly amused - at least I think so, anyway (And on this much sleep, almost anything is...) It can be found here, for the interested. Read when you're very tired and everything seems funny, 'cause that's the mood it was written in.
I'm such a nut. I have no time for anything, I slept through two of my five classes today, and I'm giving myself extra work, 'cause it's fun.
Anyhoo. I'm going to print out some copies and give em out tommorow.
So last week in Historiography, we were reading Herodotus (highly recommended, btw) and we came to a very puzzling passage concerning usurpers of thrones and Magi and ears. Yes, that's right. Ears. Or lacks thereof. Said passage can be found here (Do a "find on page" and search for "phaedima" - read from "In the eight month" for three or four paragraphs to get the interesting bit.) It seems that Magi, apparently, had no ears, and this was common accepted knowledge - at least to Herodotus.
So I raised my hand and asked why the Magi had no ears. I was serious, now, but it provoked a whole series of tangential comments, including someone telling us very seriously that in Virginia, they have no ears.
I couldn't help it; I had to write a story about it. So I did, from the end of that class into the beginning of my Democracy class. It's not awfully good - I haven't edited it or fixed it or tried to make it entirely sensible or historically accurate - I guessed on most of the historical details and didn't bother to look them up. But it is highly amused - at least I think so, anyway (And on this much sleep, almost anything is...) It can be found here, for the interested. Read when you're very tired and everything seems funny, 'cause that's the mood it was written in.
I'm such a nut. I have no time for anything, I slept through two of my five classes today, and I'm giving myself extra work, 'cause it's fun.
Anyhoo. I'm going to print out some copies and give em out tommorow.