F10-CLA 215: Topics for Paper 3
Check-list Directions:
  • _____electronic copy: e-mailed to me at victor.leuci@westminster-mo.edu);
  • _____the name of your attached file should be: F10-215-P3-Last Name, First Name  (e.g. F10-215-P3-Smith, Joan)
  • _____paper copy: bring to class
  • _____length: 600-1000ish
  • _____only use the sources as indicated in the topics
  • citing:
  • _____have cited your sources of information (facts, theories, etc).
  • _____ every main body paragraph should have citations
  • _____ included author and specific page numbers when citing from books
  • _____ see the pdf's in Moodle on how to cite class lectures (all three guides have specific directions for this)
  • _____ for this paper, rather than citing the page number in Powell, cite the ancient author, the ancient work, and the line numbers, e.g. if you quoted the following: "But he too fell to the valor and power of Heracles," your citation should look like this: (Hesiod, Theogony 332) [note error: 310-315 in our book should be 327-332].
  • bibliography:
  • _____ at the end of the paper and not on a separate sheet
  • _____only included entries for what you used in your paper
  • _____the bibliography is in the same font as your main text
  • _____used hanging indents for the bibliography
  • _____used MLA 7th edition or APA 6th edition or Chicago Manual of Style
  • writing intensive, if conferenced with writing lab:
  • writing lab tutor signature: ______________________________________________
  • Write on one of the topics below:

    1. We recently covered in class the Heroic Code. After a careful reading of the selection from Hesiod's Theogony (lines 287-332) and the selection from Euripides' Heracles Insane (lines 925-1008) in Powell's chapter on Heracles, evaluate Heracles' life via the Heroic Code. Your introduction should succinctly state what the Heroic Code was (don't forget to cite). For this paper it is important that you cite (and sometimes quote) concrete lines from both works.

    2.
    We recently covered in class the Heroic Code. After a careful reading of the selection from Virgil's Aeneid (8. 190-269) and the selection from Sophocles' Women of Trachis (lines 503-529, 555-581, 749-806) in Powell's chapter on Heracles, evaluate Heracles' life via the Heroic Code. Your introduction should succinctly state what the Heroic Code was (don't forget to cite). For this paper it is important that you cite (and sometimes quote) concrete lines from both works.

    3. All four of the authors used language to create specific moods in each of the passages listed in topics 1 and 2. For 2-3 of the authors detail how they create the mood they do (don't forget to name what mood each creates) and in your conclusion determine and demonstrate which of the authors is more (the most) effective. For this paper it is important that you cite (and sometimes quote) concrete lines from works listed above for the authors you are discussing.