Monday, October 13, 2008

. . . And Gilgamesh!

If you were in my history class, you'd get to do goofy stuff like listen to They Might Be Giants in class, and you could be confident that I'd find some way to call it educational:

Hey, there is a lot of review in there. The kids noticed:

1. Sargon, Hammurabi, Ashurbanipal and Gilgamesh.

2. Sargon writes songs in cuneiform on a clay tablet, even though nobody cares and the world sucks.

3. There's no such word as "Mesopotamish." But there should be.

They didn't notice the reference to Mohenjo-Daro, but hey, we haven't covered that yet.

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4 comments:

  1. Matt GOctober 14, 2008 at 1:13 PM

    I've used some TMBG for education, myself.

    To say that they rock, and are a national treasure, would be an understatement.

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  2. Matt GOctober 14, 2008 at 1:14 PM

    Argh. Link didn't work.

    Try this.

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  3. lee n. fieldOctober 14, 2008 at 10:26 PM

    Ah, Ashurbanipal. Interesting period in Biblical history. The tail end of Assyrian dominance, Babylon soon to be ascendant, suzerain/vassal alliances shifting (part of Judah's problem, being right there in the crossroads of everything).

    Ignore me, I'm rambling.

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