F11-Take-home option for Exam 3

Gorgon's head on a silver coin of Naples
permission to use image granted

F11: CLA215, Mythology:
Take-home Option for Exam 3

The god Apollo on a gold coin of Syracuse
image courtesy of Edgar L. Owen, #3803

Due at the beginning of class,
(in both paper and electronic form)

Directions:

Electronic copy (to victor.leuci@westminster-mo.edu):

The subject header should be "CLA215 Exam 3"

The name of your attached file should be: F11-215-E3-Last Name, First Name (e.g. F11-215-E3-Doe, John)

Paper copy: bring to class or to my office

Length: see below

in-text citing reminders:

you must cite your sources of information (facts, theories, etc).

see paper 3 for how to cite the movie or movie script

see paper 4 for how to cite class texts (when citing from primary sources within Powell)

Works Cited "Page" reminders:

same as for papers 3 & 4--check them (paper 3) (paper 4)

Option 1: Write two 600-1000ish word essays, using the two topics given below:

Cultural Norms: Starting with three American cultural norms that are in the movie (excluding love), examine to what extent they are also cultural norms in 3 of the mythic groups from the chapters from this unit, but treat the 3 trips to the underworld we covered from chapter 12 as one mythic group (see the review sheet for the chapters covered). Answer the question of why (or why not) in your conclusion.

Love: Examine the role of "love" in Disney's Hercules and 1 from the list below. In your conclusion, address your examination tells us about "love". The list:

the poetic selections in the Heroes & the underworld,
the selections from Sophocles' Antigone (and what Powell gives of the plot of the play; on-line, lines 891-930 are the most important: Ian Johnson's translation; George Theodorides' translation)
from Eurpides' Hippolytus,
from Euripides' Medea.

Option 2: Write one 1200-1800 word essay on one of the three topics below:

Cultural Norms: Starting with the three American cultural norms that you examined in Paper 3 (even if you didn't do paper 3, start with 3 American cultural norms that are in the movie), examine to what extent they are also cultural norms in 3 of the mythic groups from the chapters from this unit, but treat the 3 trips to the underworld we covered from chapter 12 as one mythic group (see the review sheet for the chapters covered). Answer the question of why (or why not) in your conclusion.

Love: Examine the role of "love" in Disney's Hercules and 2-3 from the list below. In your conclusion, address your examination tells us about "love". The list:

the poetic selections in the Heroes & the underworld,
the selections from Sophocles' Antigone, (and what Powell gives of the plot of the play; on-line, lines 891-930 are the most important: Ian Johnson's translation; George Theodorides' translation)
from Eurpides' Hippolytus,
from Euripides' Medea.

"Every hero has a weakness" (paraphrased from the movie): Based on the evidence in Powell and/or the movie, is this true for 3-4 of the following heroes: Jason, Oedipus, Perseus, Heracles, Hercules. If so, demonstrate what the weakness is; if not, demonstrate why not (don't consider being able to die as a possible weakness--that is not what Hades had in mind when he made that statement).