Humanities 110
Paper Topic # 1
Length 1500 words

Due Saturday, September 18th, 5 P.M. in your conference leader's Eliot Hall mailbox.

Reflecting on Agamemnon's apology in Book 19, ll. 78-144, E.R. Dodds remarked: "By impatient modern readers these words of Agamemnon's have sometimes been dismissed as a weak excuse or evasion of responsibility" (The Greeks and the Irrational, p. 3).

Focusing on the same passage, write an essay that analyzes the ways and the extent to which mortal characters see divine intervention as affecting the praise and blame they deserve for what they do.