STUDENT PRESENTATIONS
GREEK 2013. HOMER.
UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS.
SPRING, 2005.
PROFESSOR D. B. LEVINE
Illustration: Tondo of Attic Red-Figured Kylix, type C.
Iliupersis (Sack of Troy)
Athens, terracota, 500-490 BCE
J. Paul Getty Museum
SCHEDULE OF PRESENTATIONS
Friday, Jan. 28. MARY. ACHILLES
Friday, Feb. 4. DON. AENEAS & KEVIN. ODYSSEUS
Friday, Feb. 11. CHRIS. DIOMEDES & BRENT. AJAX
Friday, Feb. 18. JOHN. MENELAOS & SARAH. ANDROMACHE
Monday, Mar. 7. SENA. THETIS & DAVID. APOLLO
FRIDAY, MAR. 11. JOSH. ATHENA & ALISA. BRISEIS
Some suggestions for your handout and presentation:
1. Give it a good title that is appropriate to the points you are going to make about this character.
2. Briefly give genealogy and what this character does in the Iliad. Explain his/her importance to the context in which he/she appears. What does this character's name look like in Greek?
3. Briefly explain what this character does in Greek myth outside the Iliad. What ancient sources provide this information?
4. Briefly explain the character's important characteristics (personality, appearance, symbol, equipment).
5. Briefly give some idea of how this character appears in ancient and/or modern art, music, literature or drama.
(You might look in the Reference section of Mullins Library in the Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae for black and white pictures of these characters in Greek and Roman art. You also might look at the Perseus Digital Library website for illustrations and information: www.perseus.tufts.edu)
6. You may add anything else you have found and want to share with the class, as long as your presentation does not last longer than the allotted 15 minutes.