Gorgon's
head on a silver coin of Naples
permission
to
use
image
granted
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F11:
CLA227, Greek
Civilization:
Take-Home Exam III
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The god Apollo
on a gold coin of Syracuse
image courtesy
of Edgar
L.
Owen, #3803
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Directions:
E-mail me an electronic copy at
victor.leuci@westminster-mo.edu:
the subject header for
your e-mail should be: CLA 227. Take-home exam 3
the name of your
attached file should be: F11-227-E3-Last Name, First Name
(e.g. F11-227-E3-Smith, Joan)
Paper copy: bring to class
or to my office
Length: see below
Citing: as per papers 3-4,
also
when citing class notes, list author and
lecture in parentheses
Works Cited "Page":
as per paper 3-4.
also
entry for class notes should include
author, title of lecture in quotes (if there was one), the
location, the date, and the correct label, here, lecture.
Use periods to separate each of these parts (MLA 7th edit,
5.7.11)
Writing intensive: for more information, click here
Option 1: Write
two 600-1000ish word essays on topic 1 and either topic 2 or
topic 3 as given below, using only the class resources indicated in
the topic:
1.
Source Material to chose from:
Selections from Pomeroy for this unit only, class notes for the
City Dionysia, class notes for art/architecture, Pomeroy for
art/architecture.
Prompt: You
work for Westminster College 100 years in the future when
time travel is a reality (but it can't change the past). Two
professors want to take a group of students to fifth century
B.C.E. Athens for a three week "summer" course (i.e.
summer in the future, not necessarily in the past). You work
for the publications department and are entrusted with
providing a brief write-up of what the trip would entail.
Your write up need to both focus on the positive but also be
honest about the challenges of visiting that time period.
The professors want you to include something on three of the
following topics:
1. Athens' relations
with others, e.g. Sparta/Persia/Delian League,
2. the political system at
Athens,
3. daily life
(male or female, but not both),
4. art/architecture,
5. the City
Dionysia
2. Source material--all of the following: the Antigone, the selections from
Herodotus' History
and Thucydides' History
in Moodle.
Prompt: We saw
earlier in the works of Homer and in our other readings that
one means that the gods had to communicate with humans was by
means of omens, prophecies, & oracles. Based
strictly on the source material listed above, what is the take
of the following -- Herodotus, Thucydides, and characters in
the Antigone -- on
this issue, i.e. do they agree, disagree, agree with
qualifications, disagree with qualification, don't address the
issue. If certain religious festivals are covered in these
readings, you may also include what the author(s) have to say
about the festivals and their role in the events.
3. Source material--the prologues of all of the
following: the Lysistrata,
the selections from Herodotus' History and Thucydides' History in Moodle.
Prompt: How are the themes delineated in the
prologues of Herodotus' History
(also include the Gyges' story), Aristophanes' Lysistrata, and Thucydides' History similar and/or
different?
Option 2: Write
one 1200-1800 word essay on one of the topics below, using only the class resources indicated in
the topic:
1.Source material--all of the following: the Antigone, the Lysistrata, the
selections from Herodotus' History
and Thucydides' History
in Moodle.
Prompt: We saw
earlier in the works of Homer and in our other readings that
one means that the gods had to communicate with humans was by
means of omens, prophecies, & oracles. Based
strictly on the source material listed above, what is the take
of the following -- Herodotus, Thucydides, or characters in
the two plays -- on this issue, i.e. do they agree, disagree,
agree with qualifications, disagree with qualification, don't
address the issue.
If certain
religious festivals are covered in these readings, you may
also include what the author(s) have to say about the
festivals and their role in the events.
2. Source material--the prologues of all of the
following: the Antigone, the Lysistrata, the
selections from Herodotus' History
and Thucydides' History
in Moodle.
Prompt: How are the themes delineated in the
prologues of Herodotus' History
(also include the Gyges' story), Sophocles' Antigone, Aristophanes' Lysistrata, and
Thucydides' History
similar and/or different?
3. Source Material to chose from:
Selections from Pomeroy for this unit only, the Antigone, the Lysistrata, selections
from Herodotus' History
and Thucydides' History
in Moodle, class notes for the City Dionysia, class notes for
art/architecture, Pomeroy for art/architecture.
Prompt: You
work for Westminster College 100 years in the future when time
travel is a reality (but it can't change the past). Two professors want to
take a group of students to fifth century B.C.E. Athens
for a three week "summer" course (i.e. summer in the future,
not necessarily in the past). You work for the publications
department and are entrusted with providing a brief write-up
of what the trip would entail. Your write up need to both
focus on the positive but also be honest about the challenges
of visiting that time period. The professors want you to
include something on 3-5 of the following topics, but they
want to include one of # 6-8 for sure:
1. Athens' relations
with others, e.g. Sparta/Persia/Delian League,
2. the political system at
Athens,
3. daily life
(male or female, but not both),
4. art/architecture,
5. the City
Dionysia,
6. the plague,
7. Athenian
comedy performance of the Lysistrata,
8. field trip
to Thermopylae