From christopher.m.brunelle@vanderbilt.edu Thu Mar 9 08:11:46 2000 Received: from mxu1.u.washington.edu (mxu1.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.8]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.09/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id IAA56794 for ; Thu, 9 Mar 2000 08:11:45 -0800 Received: from mailer1.mail.vanderbilt.edu (mailer1.mail.Vanderbilt.Edu [129.59.1.211]) by mxu1.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.02/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id IAA14522 for ; Thu, 9 Mar 2000 08:11:45 -0800 Received: from brunelle.vanderbilt.edu. (A229106.N1.Vanderbilt.Edu [129.59.229.106]) by mailer1.mail.vanderbilt.edu (8.9.1a/8.9.1/VU-3.0.2) with SMTP id KAA26976 for ; Thu, 9 Mar 2000 10:11:44 -0600 (CST) From: "Brunelle, Christopher M" To: Classics Subject: Re: videogames In-Reply-To: <002f01bf89e1$3a1eb0c0$58a42097@oemcomputer> Message-ID: Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 10:11:09 -0600 (Central Standard Time) X-Mailer: Simeon for Win32 Version 4.1.5 Build (43) X-Authentication: none MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII See yesterday's posting [[1]] of the forthcoming CAAS conference in Princeton; there'll be a panel on Roman novels etc., with a talk on educational video games by Vasily Rudich. Chris Brunelle [[1]] http://omega.cohums.ohio-state.edu/hyper-lists/classics-l/current/0190.html On Thu, 9 Mar 2000 17:04:43 +0100 Debora Stenta wrote: > I'm an italian classics student and I'm specializing in the study of the perception of antiquity expecially through a videogame like "Caesar III". > Could people who know what I'm talking about tell me which's their opinion on it? I mean, what do you think about the image of ancient Rome given by the game, do you think it reflects historical reality, do you like playing, which importance do you think we can attach to it? I'm making inquiries about it with the help of some professors of the Department of Ancient History of the University of Bologna; you'd greatly oblige me if you consider my request. Your interventions will be very useful for my resaerch. > thank you > Debora Stenta .