Due Date: Saturday, September 18, 1999, 5 p.m. in the Faculty mailboxes in Eliot.

Length: 1500 words.

Book 21, lines 34-135 describes Achilleus' encounter with Lykaon. In a close reading, describe and analyze the varieties of power and powerlessness the passage illustrates. You may want to consider the role of fate or the gods in making or unmaking an individual's ability to exercise power and you may want to define power and powerlessness in different ways (for example, physical, material, intellectual, emotional, class-based or familial).