Directions:

• electronic copy: e-mail me at victor.leuci@westminster-mo.edu; the name of your attached file should be:
  • F12-215-P3-Last Name, First Name (e.g. F12-215-P3-Leuci, Victor)
• paper copy: bring to class
• length: 600-1000ish
• In-text Citations
  • you must have in-text citations for your sources of information (facts, theories, parts of myths, etc.)
  • every main body paragraph should have in-text citations (you want at least 2 good examples with citations per paragraph)
  • Citing primary sources from Powell's text (i.e., the actual myths):
    • make sure you include the following--the ancient author, the title of the ancient work in italics, the numbering from the ancient work, the modern author, the page number in the modern book
    • it is probably best to work some of these into your main body text instead of saving them for the citation itself
    • example 1: Hesiod, in the Theogony, notes that "surmounting his [Typhoeus'] shoulders sprouted the hundred heads of a terrible serpentine dragon" (824-825, Powell, 92).
    • example 2: Homer, in the Iliad, has Zeus say to Hera "I should have known! It was your dirty trick that put lord Hector out of the way and made his army panic!" (15.14-15, Powell, 141).
    • example 3: In the Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite, 222-223, "Eos, poor foolish lady, neglected to ask that her lover might never be subject to aging" (Powell, 82).
• Works Cited "Page" reminders:
  • to save paper, don't put on a separate page
  • in the same font, font size, etc. as your main text
  • use hanging indents
  • use MLA 7th edition (see syllabus for how the entries for our textbooks should look)
• writing intensive:
  • Don't forget to turn in the draft copy with my or the Writing labs' comments on it for it to count towards your revised paper total (and don't forget to make the revisions!)
  • print this out and bring this to your writing lab conference and have the tutor sign here: ______________________________________

Write on one of the following topics:

• Powell, Heracles' chapter: What aspects of the Heroic Code (as defined in class lecture) can you find in the selections from Sophocles' Women of Trachis on pages 405-406 and 408-409 and from Homer's Odyssey, page 410? If you wish, you may give an overview of the Heroic Code in your introductory paragraph [all page numbers are from the 7th edition].


• Powell, Perseus' chapter: What does the passage from Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound, p 356, and the passage from Simonides, Fragment 38, pp 360-361, reveal about Greek society? You may also cover the passage from Ovid's Metamorphoses, pp 364-365 & 367, if you wish, but make sure you use the other two passages well [all page numbers are from the 7th edition].