PaperTopics

CLST 4003H. Honors Colloquium on Greek Religion.
University of Arkansas. Spring, 2002. Professor Daniel Levine.

 

CHOOSING A TERM PAPER TOPIC

 

The following are offered for your consideration. All students will have
chosen a topic by Spring Break.

 

Special Topic:

• · Healing (medicine and cult)
• · Agriculture (fertility cults)
• · Athletics (games and gods)
• · Erotics (love life and religion)
• · Family (life cycle events, marriage, birth, death, etc.)
• · War (rituals and beliefs)
• · Oracles (how, where, and why)

 

Artifact-specific:

• · Curse tablets
• · Religious calendars
• · A particular Temple/Sanctuary site
• · Votives
• · _______ as depicted in vase painting

 

Festival-related:

• · A paper on a specific festival, such as the Panathenaia, Anthesteria,
  Karneia, Dionysia, Thargelia, Eleusinian Mysteries, Apatouria, etc.

 

Literary-related:

• · Religion in a genre of Greek literature: history, tragedy,
  comedy, philosophy, or some specific works.

 

Politically-related:

• · Religion in Civic Life (in Athens, for example)
• Religion and Politics (impiety trials, etc.)

 

Cult-related:

• · Hero worship (Theseus, Heracles, etc.)
• · Nymph worship
• · Worship of a specific god

 

Professor Levine must approve each paper topic, in consultation with
each student.

 

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