General Instructions: Your task is to demonstrate the range and depth of your reading, thinking, and attentiveness in class. You may make use of your textbooks and YOUR class notes

Over the course of your answers be sure to make good and masterful use of our three major  readings. Try to spend about two hours writing and editing. Be sure to make specific references to our readings. Reveal your own ideas and responses to the readings- don't just repeat class notes. 

Answer at least three questions as you strive for the two hours of writing and editing.

Here are the questions from which you will select at least three- I suspect more may be needed.

1. Define Anagnoresis  (recognition) as central to our readings. With a few well-selected and detailed examples, explore the range and depth of the concept.

2. Just like Question 1, but with a focus on Xenia.

3. Just like Question 1, but with a focus on Nostos.

4. Just like Question 1, but with a focus on Name and Fame.

5. If Death is a grim and shadowy world, what makes life worthwhile?

6. Love and friendship: Explore the bonds between humans.

7. How do all three f our central protagonists engage in a process of self-discovery and growth?

8. What is the range of power demonstrated by women- both human and divine?

9. Consider the deeper ironies of our Heroes.

10.What do the gods truly want from humans?

11. How do our heroes help define what makes a good leader?

12. How do the texts reveal the cultures' valuing of material goods? What are the treasures and why are they treasured?

13. How does the Antagonist give shape and dimension to the protagonist?

14. If you found yourself in a difficult situation, how could each of our protagonists help you?

15. Do the Heroes share a common Arete?

16. How do their adventures affect the Heroes?

17.  Explore ways in which the gods seem to personify psychological or physical states.

18. What are the weaknesses of the heroes and the heroic?

19. How should we understand travel and adventure?

20. How do the endings bring the works to a close?

21. It is sometimes said that the only enemy the Hero cannot defeat is Himself- What do you think?

22. Make sense out of the way the gods intervene in events?

23. How is the "Natural" world represented.

24. In a contest (Agon; Athloi) which of our heroes would triumph and why and how?




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