Please study carefully the following texts:
* Excerpts from George Thomson, Aeschylus and Athens
* Ovid, from The Metamorphoses, Book I.
* Hesiod, Works and Days, 105 to 235.
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Be sure to BRING ALL THESE READINGS to class. You may use a laptop; a netbook; an e-reader (Nook, etc.), but NOT a Smartphone. If you don't have any of these, PRINT the readings.
What attitude does Hesiod have about the "Golden Age"? What does he think characterized this age? Compare his account to Ovid's. Finally, compare how both express in mythical form what Thomson discusses with modern historical and economic analysis.
Length: 300 words. Email to me and to your group.
Be sure to PRINT OUT all these readings and bring them to class.