In Global you've been studying the Greeks and will be studying the Romans after. There are many similarities in their cultures...
In an effort to offer enrichment activities to anyone interested... I am going to posting Ovid's "The Metamorphoses" and Virgil's "The Aeneid" - Both are epic poems from the Romans...
It has been said by Mark Van Doren, "Homer is the world; Virgil, a style." - I'm interested in what you think.
You'd be required to read some of each of the texts and note the similarities and differences in style, theme, language, ideas, structure
It would first take the form of a t-chart later to be written into a formal essay comparing "The Odyssey" to either The Aenead" or "The Metamorphoses"
http://www.online-literature.com/virgil/aeneid/ - the Aeneid
http://www.theoi.com/Text/OvidMetamorphoses1.html - the Metamorphoses
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