Topic for Paper 1
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- length: 600-1000ish words
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Topic: Assume that a friend of yours has decided to go on a "back
to the past" post-term trip to ancient Rome (lets say from April 20th
to June 1st). What advice/recommendations would you give him/her? For
evidence, use both the material that we covered about "the city of Rome
(Jan 20)" and "Roman Religion (Jan 27)
Some things to keep in mind:
- you need to cover some
of the positives about going;
- you need to discuss
the negatives as well;
- you need to include a
variety of primary source material from both books (Shelton &
Kebric) (e.g. not all Juvenal);
- you should consider
how reliable or biased the sources are;
- you need to cite
properly (see below)
Notes:
1 Primary sources are
the passages that are by Roman sources (the things in quotes or
indented
in Kebric and the indented passages in Shelton) and are not commentary
by Shelton or Kebric.
2. Citing: give the
ancient author (if there is one) in the body of your paper and at the
end of the sentence give the modern author and page number(s) in parentheses, e.g. Martial
says "..." (Shelton, 70). or Aelius Aristides describes the various
things one can get in Rome, thus " ..." (Kebric, 3). If there is not an
ancient author indicate the type of source, e.g. one papyrus letter
from a son to his mother says "..." (Kebric, 2-3). If you are unsure
whether there is an author or not, Shelton has an appendix that lists
the various sources.