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This exhibit not so much answers these questions as it provides an accessible and viable means to address these and countless other issues about Fifth Century Athens and Greece. Gregory Crane, Associate Professor of Classics, has organized the two-room exhibit of ancient pots, coins, weapons and everyday objects with one very non-ancient device: Perseus, a computer database that sits calmly in the form of two Macintoshes beside the exhibited objects in the galleries...
...Crane incorporates this method into his core class, "Classical Greek Literature and 5th Century Athens;" this teaching technique integrates the artistic and archaeological records with the literary ones. Rather than imposing a dogmatic approach and theory on this material, Crane's overall objective is to motivate any museum visitor to use the information: "...to reorganize from bottom up, what issues we are addressing...to change the possibilities" of study...
...only problem is, he manages to lose it pretty quickly, too. Panicked, he is forced to team up with spunky young Dr. Rae Crane (Bracco) in a race to find the cure before the rain forest is destroyed...
...members of Ugly Kid Joe don't take themselves too seriously, as evidenced by the last "song" on As Ugly As They Wanna Be. "Heavy Metal," a 27-second burst of metal energy, effectively combines speed metal, thrash, and Crane's heavy metal howls into a nice little compendium of classic Headbanger's Ball...
...Ugly as They Wanna Be also features a driving cover of Black Sabbath's "Sweet Leaf" medleyed with "Funky Fresh County Club," Whitfield Crane's personal tale of jailhouse woes...