STUDENT PRESENTATIONS
GREEK 2013. HOMER.
UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS.
SPRING, 2010.
PROFESSOR D. B. LEVINE
Illustration: Tondo of Attic Red-Figured Kylix, type C.
Iliupersis (Sack of Troy)
Athens, terracota, 500-490 BCE
J. Paul Getty Museum
SCHEDULE OF PRESENTATIONS
Jan 29: Diomedes MAGGIE; Phoenix SAMANTHA R.
Feb 05: Thetis ANDREW; Apollo SETH.
Feb 12: Helenus RYAN; Telamonian Ajax KATIE.
March 01: Aeneas SAMANTHA S.; Hector THOM.
March 05: Hecuba JAMES.
Some suggestions for your handout and presentation:
1. Give it a good title that is appropriate to the points you
are going to make about this character.
2. Briefly give genealogy and what this character does
in the Iliad. Explain his/her importance to the context
in which he/she appears. What does this character’s name look like in Greek?
3. Briefly explain what this character does in Greek myth outside
the Iliad. What ancient sources provide this information?
4. Briefly explain the character’s important characteristics (personality,
appearance, symbol, equipment).
5. Briefly give some idea of how this character appears in ancient and/or
modern art, music, literature or drama.
(You might look in the Reference section of Mullins Library in the Lexicon
Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae for black and white pictures
of these characters in Greek and Roman art. You also might look at the Perseus
Digital Library website for illustrations and information: www.perseus.tufts.edu.
The Beazley Archive at Oxford has a cornucopia of images from Greek vases:
http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/xdb/ASP/testSearch.asp?searchBy=Subject&txtValue=*#S)
6. You may add anything else you have found and want to share with the
class, as long as your presentation does not last longer than the allotted
15 minutes.
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