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    Author: * DIonysia Xanthippos - 4 Posts on this thread out of 193 Posts sitewide.
    Date: Mar 4, 2006 - 15:44

    I agree with Louisa that organizing our "gods" group into a virtual "museum" with "rooms" should not overdo it in the way that the 'hoods were in Hellas, where they fragmented into far too many and tended to have "walls" that isolated members & guests into "dead" places no one visited any more. But "Evolution...' for instance has many threads, and yet discussion flows more or less freely among the members, none of whom, I think, feel "locked in" to just one or a few of them, yet they have places they can FIND to re-visit and pick up a conversation or instill new content and news from time to time.
    And don't forget, we depend upon visitors and guests from outside AW to be able to navigate around and from time to time, become members and add new blood to our groups.

    (Google helps somewhat to navigate our "worlds," but it can't do it all.)

    I have an idea that I'm a bit loath to drop into the pot, but I'll do so anyway. It is that I suspect Mt.Olympos is an area that by its very nature attracts more than the usual number of young people, from the early to the late (?) teens. I have a grand-daughter, for example, who from the age of 9 or 10 has been fascinated by mythology, especially Greek mythology. And the myths that she knows usually involve one of "the 12." Young people in this age range love to display their "learning," I think, by reciting the names of as many gods and heroes as they can (hence "lists"), as well as some stories about them. So do "college students," for that matter: the memorizing of lists is something they are forced to do & get good at (as do pre-med students, e.g.)

    Don't get me wrong, tho. I think sites like AW will, and always should, attract the young, as well as the young at heart. And would't it be nice to invite them to write and illustrate little stories or articles for us? So maybe Mt. Olympus can play a special role in this?

    Cheers,
    DI


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