Architecture of an ancient Greek fishing village

[lisbei]

Hi everyone! I'm working on a story which is set in Bronze Age Greece - well, sort of, as in, more based on a recent movie-Bronze Age Greece than anything which really historically happened

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[lady_lirenel]

I would agree with the people who said probably wooden/mud buildings.

But mostly I want to say: I soooo agree with you about how 17th century is not ancient. Ancient, to me, is pre-Dark ages, and that's only if you want to be very general about it. This is one of my big pet peeves in life.

[marycatelli]

I've freaked out people by talking about modern times -- as in ancient medieval modern.

[sollersuk]

Me too. Coming at it from both linguistics and archaeology, anything after 1500 is definitely modern.

[randomstasis]

But yes, didn't you know? the Victorian era is "ancient times", and the King James Bible is written in "Old English"

[randomstasis]

Oh how dreadful!
(In such a case, I may or may not have a tendency to assign extra public readings of Beowulf, the Pearl, and the Canterbury tales all in the original text, just so they'll know the difference between Old English, Middle English, and early Modern English, before I let them move on to easy Modern English like Shakespeare *___-)

[sollersuk]

I think the change in nomenclature has a lot to answer for. In the days when Old English was called Anglo-Saxon there was no confusion, and nobody expected to be able to just pick up "Beowulf" and read it without previous preparation.

[ap_aelfwine]

I know the feeling.

Some idiot (and not even a child, I think!) on a relative's Facebook was complaining about having thought that Shakespeare "wrote in English", before attempting to read one of his plays, and some other idiot chimed in with "Old English is so hard!"

I nearly had to sit on my hands to stop myself typing in some pithy comment to the effect that someone who can't tell the difference between "Hwaet! Ic swefna cyst secgan wille Hwaet me gemaette to midre nihte" and "But soft, what light through yonder window breaks?" probably needs either an eye examination or a remedial reading course.

[vivaine3]

I once took a remedial reading course by mistake. I quickly corrected this when I explained to the 7th grade teacher that I didn't need to learn the alphabet, I'd been reading Kipling by myself since I was 6. She wouldn't believe me until I pulled out the Mark Twain short story volume I was carrying around as light reading and began to read it to the class lol.

She called me a bad example because I had a smart mouth.

[full_metal_ox]

I may or may not have a tendency to lecture people who complain that they can't read Shakespeare's plays because they're written in "Old English." *shifty eyes*

And well you should--because everyone knows that the language of Shakespeare and the King James Bible was Ye Merrie Olde English (as in "The Shoppes at Pretension Pointe.")

[lady_lirenel]

*eyetwitch*