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LOLEXANDER
Dec. 4th, 2007 05:13 pm( Heroes season finale babble - SPOILARS AHOY )
....okay, now that all that incoherence is out of the way, back to paper-writing. I'm writing about the medieval perception of Gog and Magog, who Biblically are the peoples in the hordes of the Antichrist at the end times, and were traditionally thought in medieval times to have been sealed in the Caucasus by Alexander the Great behind the Gates of Alexander. Gog and Magog were associated with pretty much every vice, from incest to cannibalism to (obviously) being non-Christian, and were later identified with everyone from the Goths to the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel. (My specific topic, though it keeps shifting in bits, is the way in which they were seen differently in England and Germany than in the rest of Europe, and the role geography plays in these perceptions.) So I was coming up with some paper titles, and figured I'd let y'all vote on which one is the best!
[Poll #1100591]
* Caveat: I will probably not actually name my paper this, as while my professor seems to enjoy my snarky in-class comments about Orlando Bloom's inability to grow chest hair or severed-head necrophilia (IT WAS RELEVANT TO CLASS DISCUSSION, HONEST), I'm not sure he'd appreciate Internet humor in the title of a seminar paper, especially since none of these titles are all that informative. D:
....okay, now that all that incoherence is out of the way, back to paper-writing. I'm writing about the medieval perception of Gog and Magog, who Biblically are the peoples in the hordes of the Antichrist at the end times, and were traditionally thought in medieval times to have been sealed in the Caucasus by Alexander the Great behind the Gates of Alexander. Gog and Magog were associated with pretty much every vice, from incest to cannibalism to (obviously) being non-Christian, and were later identified with everyone from the Goths to the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel. (My specific topic, though it keeps shifting in bits, is the way in which they were seen differently in England and Germany than in the rest of Europe, and the role geography plays in these perceptions.) So I was coming up with some paper titles, and figured I'd let y'all vote on which one is the best!
[Poll #1100591]
* Caveat: I will probably not actually name my paper this, as while my professor seems to enjoy my snarky in-class comments about Orlando Bloom's inability to grow chest hair or severed-head necrophilia (IT WAS RELEVANT TO CLASS DISCUSSION, HONEST), I'm not sure he'd appreciate Internet humor in the title of a seminar paper, especially since none of these titles are all that informative. D:
