Directions:

• electronic copy: e-mail me at victor.leuci@westminster-mo.edu; the name of your attached file (not the subject header of your e-mail) should be:
  • F15-227-P1-Last Name, First Name (e.g. F15-227-P1-Leuci, Victor)
• paper copy: bring to class
• length: 600-1000ish
• Sources: check back later
• 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)
  • in your introductory paragraph, mention that you are using Homer's Iliad and Odyssey.
  • your in-text citations should include the work, the book number, and the line numbers. E.g. Achilles calls an assembly meeting to deal with the plague (Il., 1. 58) or (Il., 1. [54])
• 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 the on-line source should list the ancient author first, the the work (in italics), then the translator, then the web page (in italics), the publisher of the web page, date for work(if given). Web. date accessed. All of this information is available at the top of the pdf of Iliad, Books 1 & 2 in Moodle (except for the date you accessed the information).
• 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:

• Women: We have discussed how scholars use the Iliad and the Odyssey as source material to hypothesize about what life was like during the Late Dark Age (late 700's BCE). Using only the relationships of Zeus and Hera (Iliad, Bk 1), of Priam and Hecabe (Iliad, Bk 24), and of Odysseus and Penelope (Odyssey, Bk 23) as your source material, "triangulate" what the parameters or expectations of wives would have been during that time period


• Deities: It has been suggested that how deities interact with humans can be described based on three pairs of opposites (Near/Far; Kind/Cruel; Just/self-seeking), i.e. the gods are sometimes kind to humans and sometimes cruel, sometimes just and sometimes self-seeking, etc. Pick one of these pairs and examine if there is any change between the Iliad and the Odyssey in how deities interact with humans.