i think ancient is by far my hardest subject, especially because my awesome (yet a total deranged workaholic
) teacher decided for some reason unknown to us to all that we would do two topics at once. so i have no idea wtf is going on because we're doing a historical period (the 2nd one on top of that) at the same time as a society. i'm confuzzled and i missed two weeks of classes! ah!
personality - cleopatra (looking forward to this one
)
society - rome in augustus-titus (meh)
historical period I - augustus-julio claudians
historical period II - rome 68-235 (we're still up to like, 69-70 AD, just after Vespasian gained power! ahh!)
my teacher looooves augustus. she has a framed picture of him above her blackboard. i conducted a little experiment by inserting random augustus compliments into a set of questions about galba (ie for a question about why he failed so miserably i said something like 'unfortunately he did not possess the leadership skills of the brilliant leader augustus, and so...'). i got 19/20.