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:
- F16-227-P4-Last Name, First Name (e.g. F16-227-P4-Leuci, Victor)
- paper copy: bring to class
- length: 600-1000ish
- Sources: see below
- 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)
- from main text in Kebric: use his page numbers when citing what he says.
- from classical authors
- in web sources: include the author (unless mentioned in the sentence already), then the numbers provided, e.g. "Diogeiton induced him to marry the one daughter that he had" (Lys. 32.4)
- in Kebric: mention the author in your main text (see below for authors), give Kebric and his page number. E.g. Lysias reports the mother saying "If you felt no shame before any human being" (Kebric 222)
- 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
- entry for Kebric's book should look like the entry in our syllabus
- entries for the actual speeches should be as follows:
- Antiphon. Minor Attic Orators. Vol. 1. Transl. by K.J. Maidment. (Loeb Classical Library, 308). Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 1980. Perseus under Philologic. University of Chicago. date accessed
- Lysias. Lysias with an English translation by W.R.M. Lamb (Loeb Classical Library, 244). Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 1930. Perseus under Philologic. University of Chicago. date accessed
- 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!)
- ________________________________________- writing lab tutor's signature
Write on one of the following topics:
- Men: Aristotle, in his Politics, states "the relation of male to female is naturally that of the superior to the inferior-- of the ruling to the ruled" (1254b) because the male possesses "the rational ... element"; the female "the irrational ... element" (1260a). Kebric provides some first hand evidence of men and women and their lives in the following stories: Eratosthenes (205-211), A Poisonous Stepmother? (214-217), and Diogeiton (217-223). Using two of these stories, determine whether Aristotle was correct in his assessment of Athenian men then and present your case accordingly.
- Women: Aristotle, in his Politics, states "the relation of male to female is naturally that of the superior to the inferior-- of the ruling to the ruled" (1254b) because the male possesses "the rational ... element"; the female "the irrational ... element" (1260a). Kebric provides some first hand evidence of men and women and their lives in the following stories: Eratosthenes (205-211), A Poisonous Stepmother? (214-217), and Diogeiton (217-223). Using two of these stories, determine whether Aristotle was correct in his assessment of Athenian women then and present your case accordingly.
- Optional: If you like, you may use other parts of the 3 speeches that form the basis of our information on these three cases:
