Wiki Trails: From Mahabharata to Ancient Greek
I decided to check out the Mahabharata Wikipedia page to get some more information on this story. In this article, I learned a lot about the history of the story and wrote down some really interesting little facts about it to possibly add to my next stories.
In this story, I found a link to Panini. I have no reason that I clicked this link, other than the fact that I was eating a sandwich while going down the Wikipedia rabbit hole and this caused me to follow the food sounding page. Who doesn't love a good panini?
On this page, I learned that Panini was a 4th Century BCE Indian scholar who was mainly interested in grammar and linguistics. So, my stomach led me to the linguist! This guy is actually super fascinating and I am going to mention him in some of my linguistic classes to find out more from my professors.
In this article, I saw a link to Ferdinand de Saussure, another anthropologist/linguist. I have actually been hearing a lot about this guy in one of my courses, so it was really fascinating to get to read more about him and learn how he developed his theories that I am studying right now.
In the Wiki page on him, I learned that he studied Ancient Greek. My grandmother was an ancient historian and specialized in Ancient Greek, so it was really fun getting to read about a lot of the stuff my grandmother studied and spoke to me about when I was a kid.
Hi Caitlyn!
ReplyDeleteLike you I am taking advantage of the extra credit in this class. Currently, I am in the middle of the blog stream extra commenting option. Your post caught my eye, because I like the Wikipedia trails posts. They are fun and so random. That's cool how researching one class also helped you in another class. You are right about the Wikipedia being a rabbit hole.