Re: [Epic] Questions

From: Thane Morgan <thane_at_...>
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 1998 20:09:32 -0700

Elaine P wrote:
>
> Scott Shupe wrote:
> <snip>
> >> from the codexes for detachments. Orks, I use the name generator
> table
> >> in Waaargh the Orks.
> >
> > Could you post this? Or is it really huge? I generally
> >have problems coming up with good Ork names.
>
> The name generator is 2 charts with 40 names each. The book has 4 pages
> devoted to the Ork language. I'll take a look at it & see what I can
> do.
>
> <snip>
> >> I've just started collecting Tyranids & am naming
> >> the detachments with female names from Greek literature.
> >
> > Too many classic literature professors in their diet?
>
> Perhaps in mine. I've been doing research for a project involving
> Mycenaean Greece. In both the Minoyan & Mycenaean civilizations women
> enjoyed a level of equality that disappearred in the Greek Dark Age.
> After the dark age, women are seen either as a weak sex, or as evil
> creatures. Hesiod says that we were created by the gods to entrap &
> punish men. ;-)
> --Elaine
> OK, so it took us a few thousand years to figure this out. Society was
young then, they were bound to make some mistakes. Fortunately they're
in their place now....

Thane the Instigator
Received on Wed Mar 25 1998 - 03:09:32 UTC