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Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Operation KTHMA post-hub


Here's a hub for my posts about Operation KTHMA aka UConn CAMS 3212, my role-playing course about the Greek historians Herodotus and Thucydides that first ran in the Fall semester of 2009.




  • Operation KTHMA
  • Operation KTHMA: Day 1 (the plan)
  • Playing the past
  • Day 1 as it actually went down
  • Day 2
  • Day 3
  • Day 4
  • Closing in on Homer
  • The logagonistic system
  • Memories of Egypt
  • Boss Fight!
  • Aristocratic feuding by torchlight
  • The road to Delphi
  • Arts, crafts, and card-based combat
  • Handing over the reins
  • The end of the mission, part 1
  • The end of the mission, part 2
  • The end of KTHMA
Posted by Roger Travis at 6:18 AM
Labels: CAMS 3212, Herodotus, Operation KTHMA, Thucydides
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Currently exploring the connection between classics (esp. homeric epic and Platonic discourse) and narrative video games. See my posts on Play the Past and my blog Living Epic for details.

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  • Achilles' Phat Lewtz (why that drop really was epic)
  • Quibus lusoribus bono? Who is game studies good for?
  • Creating the Normal Gamer (which is actually about Plato, though it's seemingy ancient-content free)
  • Bungie's Epic Achievement: Halo and the Aeneid (the beginning of this journey)
  • "The Spectation of Gyges": probably the coolest real-classics thing I'll ever write
  • An article about *Middlemarch* I'm kind of proud of
  • Allegory and the Tragic Chorus in Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus (for all your insomnia needs)

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  • A place of our (game-critics) own: Critical Distance
  • Ada, another classicist gamer!
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