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Write a paper of 1500 – 1800 words whose thesis in some manner discusses the historical evidence that the below object provides. You should bring to bear the skills and ideas of this course, be convincing and conduct research that results in authoritative references in your paper
Literary topics can be browsed and read at the Loeb Online Library. Below are some beginning references for topics that entail places or objects: 1. Tripod Stand https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/256861 2. Hippodrome of Aphrodisias https://photos.app.goo.gl/rjs2v9dwK8NesKSR8 3. Tale of Aesop http://editing.opengreekandlatin.org/side_by_side_view.html?collectionUri=/db/apps/894469813v1_2017-06-30-09- 00-00&positionInCollection=159 4. Building Account of the Acropolis https://www.atticinscriptions.com/inscription/IGI3/449 https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/squeezes/items/1.0050776 5. Ancient Cloth from Keranis and Soknopaiou Nesos http://www.lsa.umich.edu/kelsey/galleries/Exhibits/textiles/classroom/class3a.html 6. Bone aulos (kind of flute) from Paestum https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnMw3MU8PFI 7. Josephus The Jewish War Book 8 as evidence for Roman imperialism 8. Menander’s play Dyscolos (or ‘Grouch’) as evidence for attitudes towards slaves and slavery 9. The Dinner of Trimalchio as evidence for social mobility in the Roman world 10. Xenophon On Hunting as evidence for the use and treatment of dogs in ancient Greece: https://www-loebclassics-com.libproxy.mta.ca/view/xenophon_athens-hunting/1925/pb_LCL183.367.xml?result =11&rskey=HsjPvw 11. Terraced housing of Ephesus: https://www.ephesus.us/ephesus/terracehouses.htm 12. Virgil’s Aeneid, Book 6 as evidence for Roman ideas of the afterlife 13. Roman horoscopes as evidence of astronomical understandin
