Directions:

• electronic copy: e-mail me at victor.leuci@westminster-mo.edu; the name of your attached file should be:
  • F12-215-P4-Last Name, First Name (e.g. F12-215-P4-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).
  • Citing Powell's summaries or general information: Give the author and page number, e.g. (Powell, 70)
• 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
  • entries for classical texts from Powell's book should list ancient author first, if there is one, then the work (in italics), then the translator, ... Here is an example: Homeric Hymn to Demeter. Trans. by Herbert M. Howe. In Classical Myth. 7th edit. Barry B. Powell. Boston: Pearson. 2012. Print.
  • don't forget to change the edition and year of Powell's text if you are not using the 7th edition
  • 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:

• Both Medea and Clytemnestra take vengeance on their husbands, but choose rather different approaches. Compare and/or contrast their approaches. Where possible use examples from the primary sources, but use Powell's text when you need to. [Reminder: each main body paragraph must have examples about each of the two women.]


• "Always to be the best and preeminent above all others" Iliad 11.827–828. These were words that Peleus gave to his son Achilles before he went off to the Trojan war; they are also a good working definition of aretê. In your essay address how this quote motivates Achilles & Agamemnon in Iliad 1.148–244 and Hector in Il. 6.390–502 (Powell, pp 561–562 and 563–565).


• "Always to be the best and preeminent above all others" Iliad 11.827–828. These were words that Peleus gave to his son Achilles before he went off to the Trojan war; they are also a good working definition of aretê. In your essay address how this quote no longer motivates Achilles in Iliad 9.308–429 and 24.472–551 (Powell, pp 567–569 and 571–573).