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Humanities 110
Paper Topic #3
Length: 1500 Words.
Due Date: November 10th, 5 p.m., in the Faculty Mailboxes in Eliot
Please write on one of the following questions.
1. Compare the relation between sex and violence in Agamemnon
(ll.1385-1406) with an image of Achilles killing
Penthesilea (by either Exekias or the Penthesilea Painter), or with
Sutton Fig. 1.3
Images:
Penthesilea Painter: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/image?lookup=1993.01.0056&type=vase
Exekias: http://www.calvin.edu/academic/clas/clas231/176a.jpg
2. What contribution does the private citizen make to the health of the
city? Discuss with reference to Pericles's Funeral Oration and with either The Eumenides or the Parthenon Frieze.
3. Compare the uses of debate (either political, rhetorical, or moral) in
The Eumenides with that in the Melian Dialogues.
4. To what extent is the view of human nature articulated in
Thucydides's account of the civil war in Corcyra borne out by the rest
of his History of the Peloponnesian War?
5. With the permission of your conference leader, write on a topic of your own choosing.
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