Marie L. Fadus
Assignment:
Choose one of the following topics in which you feel you may be interested. Write a two to three page report on the topic. Be ready to present a summary to the class.
Your written report should be well-organized and well-researched. Do not copy directly from a text. Use your own words in the best possible manner. List sources.
Your oral report shouLd be succinct and well-organized.
Make an attempt to use visual aids. Do not read directly from your written paper but feel free to use notes.
Due Date
Written report (month and day
Oral report (month and week)
Topics:
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1. the Vaphio cups
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2. Heinrich Schliemann (2 students)
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a. site of Troy; artifacts
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b. artifacts from Mycenae
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3. Excavations at Pylos restoration of the Great Hall of the palace of Nestor
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4. the Warrior Vase
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5. a boar’s tooth helmet (cf. drawing for lots and the epithet ‘white-toothed boar’)
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6. a description of an Homeric sailing ship
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7.
The Theogony of Hesiod
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8.
Ulysses;
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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9. Conjectural Journeys
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a. Ernle Bradford
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b. Victor Berard
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10. the Muses
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11.
Agamemnon
by Aeschylus
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12. the Trojan War
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a. the judgment of Paris
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b. Agamemnon and Menelaus
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c. Achilles and Patroclus
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d. Hector, Aeneas, King Priam
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e. the funeral games, Book XXIII,
The Iliad
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13. the Fates
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14. Attic Vases Argos, Eleusis, and Aegina
