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Use the map at the link below to label the Map of Greece as indicated on the handout.
Read each of the articles listed below. Use mindmaps or other notetaking techniques to summarize the information.
An information article on Ancient Greek Oracles
An Essay on The Delphic Oracle from Sunrise Magazine
"Delphic Oracle's Lips May Have Been Loosened by Gas Vapors"
Read the article at the link below. Use mindmapping or other notetaking techniques to summarize the information. Bring the outline to attach to the test on Monday 24 February.
Create a Harvard outline of the essay, with the thesis as
the first level.
Click
here to see a sample Harvard outline
Using electronic sources (websites, electronic databases such as ELibrary and EBSCO), research the following question:
What is the cultural function of mythology?
In order to answer this question fully, you need to understand what the words "myth" and "mythology" connote in both ancient and modern usage. In answering this question, you must consider both cultures of the past (especially Greece, but you should also look at other, non-Western cultures) and the present. When researching function, you should be thinking about the purposes that mythology serves in establishing and maintaining cultural identity.
You must have at least 4 sources. Create a Reference List of your sources, following the appropriate formats from the John McCrae Style guide.
Write an narrative essay on your changing understandings of the concept of mythology from your childhood up to and including this project. The essay should be approximately 750 words.
As you are organizing and drafting your material, be aware of the following conventions of the narrative essay
Suggestion: You may find it useful to use a circular structure for the essay, like the one used in the essay, "Listening to the Patient." In that essay, the writer uses the image of the "circle of the light" to establish tone at the beginning of the essay, then returns to the same image to close the essay with a renewed sense of the symbolic meaning of the image and, therefore, the argument of the essay.
In the case of your essay, you may wish to begin with, for example, an anecdote of a childhood experience of a mythic story (think heroic cartoons, perhaps), then at the end of the essay reintroduce the original anecdote with a expanded sense of its meaning.
document revised 9 Aug 2005
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