Response Paper #4: The Greeks
Please choose one of the topics below for your response.
You may visit the Resources page to get to the links, or you can follow a
link directly from this page. Remember to respond to the ideas, plot, characters,
etc rather than giving me a summary of the work. I know the storyline of each
of these works very well, so my interest is in how you feel or what you think
after you read.
- Euripedes,
The
Trojan Women: I will provide a full-text link to this play.
- Sappho,
poetry: difficult to find e-texts,
but web searches will yield fragments and the one surviving complete poem.
- Greek Musical Theory
- Stoicism,
Skepticism, Epicureanism, or Cynicism: our text provides excellent summaries;
web searches will yield lots of info as well. Respond to the ideas rather
than giving me a summary of the system (I already know what each one is!).
- The
Illiad: I will provide a full-text link to this poem.
- The
Odyssey: “ “
- Sculptural
comparison of the human figure from the Aegean to the Hellenistic periods.
- The
Athenian Court System