Take-home Option for
Exam
II
Due
at the beginning of class,
(in
both paper and electronic form)
Directions:
Option 1: write two 600-900 word
essays
on two of the topics given below
Option 2: write one 1200-1500 word
essay
on one of the topics given below.
- e-mail a
copy to me (victor.leuci@westminster-mo.edu)
- bring a paper
copy to class
- length: see options above
- citing: Leonard--use (Leonard,
page number); Powell--use page number for his comments; use title of
work and the line numbers when citing from the Homeric Hymns or from
Homer, e.g.from the Odyssey: Od 8.266; from the Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite: h Ven 25. For the abbreviations to
use for the Homeric Hymns, see the citing directions for Paper 2
- bibliography: as per paper 3,
but you can put the bibliography at the end of a page instead of a
separate page, if there is room.
- for more
information about the format
and about
the writing intensive requirements, click
here
1. What do the first thirty lines or so of
the Homeric Hymns to Apollo,
Hermes, Artemis, Aphrodite, & Demeter (all in Powell) and the
passages from the Iliad
1.561-611 (Powell, pp 155-156) and the Odyssey, 8.266-366 (Powell, pp
183-185) tell us about Greek society (i.e. apply Malinowski's charter
theory)? Make sure you give specific examples to back up your
conclusions and that you succintly, but sufficiently, state what
Malinowski's theory is in your introduction.
2. Apply Levi-Strauss's theory to 3 or 4 of the following Homeric Hymns: to Apollo, to
Hermes, to Aphrodite, to Demeter. Make sure you give specific examples
to back up your conclusions and that you succintly, but sufficiently,
state what Levi-Strauss's theory is in your introduction.
3. The chapter in Powell's book on Zeus and Hera (Chapter 6) details
some of the ways that they related to each other as a couple and how
that related to what married life was like in Greek society. Starting
with Zeus & Hera's relationship, how do the following relationships
modify or magnify what one has learned from Zeus & Hera's
relationship--Aphrodite and Hephaestus, Demeter & Zeus, Hades &
Persephone (as a newly married couple), Apollo & Coronis, Aphrodite
& Anchises (their interchange prior to their 'fling').
4. Compare/contrast the Greek view of male/female relationships, as
evidenced by Zeus & Hera's relationship (Powell, Ch 6) and either
Zeus & Demeter's relationship (Powell, Ch 9) or Aphrodite &
Hephaestus' relationship (Powell, Ch 7), with the Vietnamese view, as evidenced in
the myth of Au Co &
the Dragon Prince (Leonard, 144ff), and with the Hawaiian view, as
evidenced in the myth of Pe-le (Leonard, 122ff)].