Myth Into History, Week 6: Classical History II [Thurs/1st Period, Danger Shop]
This week when students entered the Danger Shop, it was set up as the inside of an armory, about the size and shape as last week's soda ware house but with weapons instead of bottling supplies. You'd think it was the same set redressed; funny, that. Janice was sitting atop a crate that (if anyone could read Old Persian) was labelled "Poison-Tipped Arrows." The students' tables had been set up to face the door, and there were plates of nutbread and carrot cake within easy reach.
"Welcome to Tripolis," she said, cigar firmly clamped in her teeth as usual. "You're in a Persian armory on the route between Athens and Marathon. Yes, as in the Battle of Marathon. This is where Xena held off the entire Persian army singlehanded, long enough for Pheidippides to make his famous run to Athens and mobilize the Greek forces there."
She went on for a while about how the Persian army had defeated the Greeks at Marathon and would have cut through the pass at Thermopylae to get to Athens, if Xena hadn't slowed them down; any questions or objections from the class were pretty much ignored in the unstoppable momentum she had going today. Once she was done (mercifully), she hit a button on the remote and transformed the armory into last week's soda warehouse.
"Time to see if those battle plans of yours will work -- and try not to set anything on fire, okay?"
[OOC: Class Info Post. I am really sorry for the kinda crappy class today but I've been blindsided by a cold and my brain is fuzzy. And yes, daytime availability is going to suck again today. Sigh. I'll do what I can, and pick up when I get home. OCD up!]
"Welcome to Tripolis," she said, cigar firmly clamped in her teeth as usual. "You're in a Persian armory on the route between Athens and Marathon. Yes, as in the Battle of Marathon. This is where Xena held off the entire Persian army singlehanded, long enough for Pheidippides to make his famous run to Athens and mobilize the Greek forces there."
She went on for a while about how the Persian army had defeated the Greeks at Marathon and would have cut through the pass at Thermopylae to get to Athens, if Xena hadn't slowed them down; any questions or objections from the class were pretty much ignored in the unstoppable momentum she had going today. Once she was done (mercifully), she hit a button on the remote and transformed the armory into last week's soda warehouse.
"Time to see if those battle plans of yours will work -- and try not to set anything on fire, okay?"
[OOC: Class Info Post. I am really sorry for the kinda crappy class today but I've been blindsided by a cold and my brain is fuzzy. And yes, daytime availability is going to suck again today. Sigh. I'll do what I can, and pick up when I get home. OCD up!]