I need help with crafting and writing about 1500-2000 words or 5-6 paged essay in MLA format. Since it is in MLA format, we are using double spaced lines to reach the 5/6 pages. The myths we use should be Greek myths.
Please communicate well with me before deciding and starting on any, since the myth cannot be on one that was already covered in detail.
These are the prompt choices:
- Choose a book from Ovid’s Metamorphoses that we didn’t read in its entirety for class. Offer an explanation as to why Ovid has brought together the myths included in the book you’ve chosen (and narrated them in the way that he does). What’s the “message” of this particular book of the Metamorphosis?
- Choose a mythic family other than that of Oedipus. What does the mythic history of the family you’ve chosen suggest about the way parent-child relations and inherited obligations work in classical myth?
- Choose a myth and at least three versions of that myth. Tracing changes in the myth from version to version, discuss how it evolves with the passage of time. How does the latest version of the myth you’re discussing reference and incorporate the earlier two in order to turn old stories to new purposes?
- Choose a natural object (e.g. stars, a type of stone, a type of plant) and at least three myths featuring that object. Explain the object’s narrative function in each of the myths you’ve chosen to discuss. What do these myths suggest about how Greek and Roman writers interpreted the object in question? Does their interpretation change with time?
- Identify a mythological character who suffers from some kind of madness. Paying careful attention to the arguments made in the introduction to Ruth Padel’s Whom the Gods Destroy (in the New Bonus Readings folder on Canvas), explore the ways in which at least two ancient versions of the myth frame the character you’ve chosen as “mad.” Is it possible or appropriate to diagnose your chosen character according to modern medical standards?
- Choose a personified concept and at least two myths in which it appears. What does the role your chosen concept plays in those myths tell us about how Greek or Roman understanding of that concept differed from our own?
- Apply any of the above prompts to a comparison of Greco-Roman myths with myths from another culture.


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