Writing Homework Help

For this five-page paper you must contrast 3 quotations.
Choose 2 quotations of your own, 1 before and 1 after the midterm, and contrast them to
the following to make your own argument about the difference between their perspectives
on violence or justice or gender, or the family:

Antigone: “But if I die before my time, I count that as
a profit. How can death not profit one who lives
surrounded by as many evils as myself?
For me to, therefore, to meet this doom is equal to
no grief at all. But if I had endured the son
of my own mother to lie dead without a grave,
that would have brought me grief; but I’m not grieved by this.
And if you think my present deeds are foolishness,
Perhaps the one who calls me foolish is the fool.”
(Antigone 461-70)

Before Midterm: Theogony, Works and DAys, Iliad, Odyssey, “Hymn to Apollo”, “Homeric Hymn to Demeter”

After Midterm: Lucian, Pausanias, Agamemnon, Libation Bearers, Furies, Plato

Paper Grading Rubric:

1) An introduction with a strong thesis and a conclusion that ties examples together:
30 points

2) Good choice of examples and correct, close analysis of the language: 40 points

3) Demonstrating an understanding of context: 30 points (a. Accurate statements about the works from which quotations are derived
b. Understanding some of the themes raised in class
c. Understanding basic concepts of myth.)

I have the Iliad, Odyssey and Agamemnon as pdf’s that I can upload some other way since there is a size limit on this site.