Read through all of these Activities before making your selection. Make a copy of the Activity question to begin your response. Upload your Activity here. These Activity entries must be thoughtful; each one should be the equivalent of at least a full typed page or more in length (e.g. not less than 250 words).
They may be longer if you need to say more on your topic. You will not be able to do these Activity entries properly unless you have carefully read the assigned literature.
You may access free etexts of these epics: Agamemnon, Oedipus the King, Antigone, and Medea at The Internet Classics Archive:
http://classics.mit.edu/Browse/index.html (Links to an external site.)
You will have to select the name of the author, choose the play title, and then the script will come up.
Lysistrata by Aristophanes will be found at the Gutenberg Press: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/7700/7700-h/7700-h.htm (Links to an external site.).
The House of Atreus is one of the world’s most famous dysfunctional families. Look up each of the family members, write a brief biography of each, and then explain what the family’s main problems were. Support your ideas with specific examples from your reading. Bulfinch’s Mythology is a good place to start.
