PAPER GUIDELINES FOR CL333 ROMAN ELEGIAC POETS

November 2: Research proposal due

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Introduction: briefly state your thesis and the issues most important to your topic
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Methodology: briefly describe the method you will use to explicate your topic
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Bibliography: list and briefly annotate the usefulness of your references
December 7th: Final draft of research paper due
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8-10 pages
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scholarly sources- use books, journal articles
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embrace JSTOR, avoid web based sources

SAMPLE PAPER TOPICS

Amatory Elegy
military metaphor
witchcraft
role of mistress
Augustanism
Elegists and the Lex Julia
use of mythology
sincerity v. irony
reshaping Roman masculinity
Heroides
compare Heroides VII to Aeneid
compare Heroides I to Odyssey
Ovids feminine voice (include other letters from Heroides)
Fasti
compare Ovids Venus in Fasti IV. to Lucretius in DNR I.
compare treatment of Cybele & Attis in Ovids Fasti to Catullus 63;
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account of Cybeles reception at Rome to Livy
compare Ovids treatment of Ceres to Homeric Hymn to Demeter
Roman cults on Republican coinage
astronomy
etiology: Ovids Fasti and Propertius Elegies IV
Ovids narrative technique