For topic #2 Let’s think about both the Iliad and the source on the Battle of Thermopylae that we have read. Respond to questions 1-4 for both documents, and pick 1 of them for question 5:
1) Who wrote the document?
2) When was it written?
3) What kind of document is is?
4) Is is biased or have a specific point of view?
5) Choose either the Iliad of the story of Thermopylae: what can we learn from this document about ancient Greece?
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150-250 words long and appropriately answer the question posed. You can bring in material from the text book, from the assigned primary source web reading (if there is one that week), and of course your own ideas! You can bring in ideas from outside web sources as well, but you MUST cite them to avoid plagiarism, and so that I and your classmates can see where you got your material. 1.2: You MUST include at least one quote from either the textbook or the primary source document. Example 1 (textbook): Europeans were willing to take enormous risks in search of a viable spice route, with some journeys losing half of their fleet and still finding that a “. . .cargo of spices was so valuable that these loses were deemed insignificant.” (Cole and Symes, 413)Example 2 (on-line primary source): Marriage was often very young, especially for women, in the middle ages, as we saw in the Goodman of Paris document where the husband addresses his wife as her “. . .being the age of fifteen years and in the week that you and I were wed. . . .” (https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/source/goodman.asp) See less
