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:
  • S15-215-P1-Last Name, First Name (e.g. S15-215-P1-Leuci, Victor)
• paper copy: bring to class
• length: 600-1000ish
• Sources: Use only the sources mentioned in the individual topics 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)
  • 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 primary sources from Leonard & McClure's book: give the author and the page number
  • Citing the Norse pdf: Use the numbers given in the text itself, e.g. "Many ages before the earth was made, Niflheim had existed" (Sturluson, 4.4)
• 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
  • use MLA 7th edition (see syllabus for how the entries for our textbooks should look; see beginning of the Phone version of the Norse text for how it should look)
  • entries for classical texts from Powell's book should list ancient author first, then the work (in italics), then the translator, ... Here is an example: Pseudo-Hesiod. Shield of Heracles. Trans. by Herbert M. Howe. In Classical Myth. 7th edit. Barry B. Powell. Boston: Pearson. 2012. Print.
  • the entry for the Norse pdf should be: Sturluson, Snorri. The Prose Edda. Transl. Rasmus B. Anderson. Chicago: Scott, Foreman & Co. 1897. Pdf in Moodle. Web. 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!)
  • print this out and bring this to your writing lab conference and have the tutor sign here: _______________________

Write on one of the following topics:

• Females: One way that myths can be analyzed is as providing "windows" into the culture of the myth. Compare and/or contrast the view/role/duties/etc of females in the Iroquois myth with that of females in the Greek/Roman myths in Powell's chapter 5 that relate to humans.
  
  
• Males: One way that myths can be analyzed is as providing "windows" into the culture of the myth. Compare and/or contrast the view/role/duties/etc of males in the Norse myth (pdf) with that of the males in the Greek/Roman myths in Powell's chapter 5.
  
  
• Proto-Science: One way that myths, especially creation myths, can be analyzed is as expressing an early form of "science." Examine the Norse myth (pdf) with this in mind.