OLD WORLD ENCOUNTERS

Ancient travellers’ tales were written by, for, and about men. How do accounts of foreign women confirm
the authors’ own conceptions of women (or not)? How do inversions of gender roles or unequal power
relations reinforce norms?
make your points clearly, concretely and succinctly
• your first paragraph should be just a few sentences long and should state your thesis
• use a spell checker, but look four typing errors, two
• instead, organize bytopic:
paragraph 1: The foundation saga of… paragraph 2:
Alphabetic literacy held…
CITATION FORMAT
primary
abbr. auth. [titl.] book. chapter
use ancient primary sources OFTEN – e.g. Hdt.1.23, FgrHist 715 F1a.36 (for Megasthenes), XZ 1.22, etc.
secondary (parenthetical Chicago Manual of Style author–lZI date system)
use NO MODERN secondary sources for thisessay! No internet sources!
CITE OFTEN • DEMONSTRATE YOUR COMMAND OF THE ANCIENT SOURCES
Cite ancient primary sources often — any and all assigned primary sources. You should
NOT refer to secondary sources for this essay.
• cite in parentheses EVERY TIME you QUOTE or SUMMARIZE, for example:
The man chosen by YHWH built a box, or ark, “covered inside and out with pitch (Gen 9.7).
note that the author or book title is dropped when used in the sentence or cited in sequence
• you can gain credit for breadth of reading by using “; see also” (when the following citation proves the exact same
point) or by using “; cf.” (meaning “compare,” when the following citation makes a similar point) which allows you to
efficiently cite more than one source without repeating yourself, for example:
Egyptian sources called the dome of the sky Nut: P“quote” (Oec.II.24; see also Hdt.III.21, Xen.Hel.I.35).