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:
  • F17-227-P4-Last Name, First Name (e.g. F17-227-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)
  • use page numbers if using Kebric's text
  • if you use the speeches, use the numbers at the left along with the author of the speech.
• 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
  • see syllabus for Kebric's text
  • if you use the actual speeches:
    • For Antiphon: Antiphon. Minor Attic Orators. Vol. 1. Transl. by K.J. Maidment. (Loeb Classical Library, 308). M.A. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 1980. Perseus under Philologic. University of Chicago. Give the URL. Date accessed: then the date you accessed the web site
    • For Lysias: Lysias. Lysias with an English translation by W.R.M. Lamb (Loeb Classical Library, 244). M.A. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 1930. Perseus under Philologic. University of Chicago. Give the URL. Date accessed: then the date you accessed the web site
• 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: One way the Greeks explained the misfortune or ruin of individuals was with the koros—hubris—ate pattern (i.e. not content with "enough", one goes for too much and acts insolently/rashly and thus brings about one's ruin). Examine either "Eratosthenes—An Adulterer's Luck Runs Out" (Kebric, 205–211) or "Diogeiton—A Grandfather Turns Embezzler" (Kebric, 217–223), and determine whether this pattern fits (or does not fit) Eratosthenes or Diogeiton (cover only one of these 2).


• Women: Lysistrata is an example (to the extreme) of what one person can accomplish with 'personal' power as opposed to 'official' power (official power is power that is legally or officially yours). To what extent do all the women in one of the follwowing three cases:
  • "Eratosthenes—An Adulterer's Luck Runs Out" (Kebric, 205–211)
  • "In-Law Problems—A Poisonous Stepmother?" (Kebric, 214–217)
  • ""Diogeiton—A Grandfather Turns embezzler" (Kebric, 217–223)
  exhibit such 'personal' power? In your final paragraph comment on how the conclusions you have drawn earlier in your essay amplify and/or modify the typical depiction of Athenian women in the fifth and fourth centuries B. C.



• Optional Resources: If you like, you may use other parts of the 3 speeches that form the basis of our information on these three cases:
  • "Eratosthenes—An Adulterer's Luck Runs Out" Lysias 1: click here
  • "In-Law Problems—A Poisonous Step-mother" Antiphon 1: click here
  • Diogeiton—A Grandfather Turns Embezzler" Lysias 32: click here