Primary Source Essay:
In this assignment you will write an essay that includes analysis of a primary source or sources. Primary sources are documents or other artifacts that provide first-hand accounts of the time period that you are studying. Primary sources are created by participants in or witnesses to events at the time or close to the time that they occurred. Primary sources include laws, treaties, speeches, diaries, memoirs, letters, reports, government or other records, creative works, and for later periods, photographs, films etc.
Select ONE of the assignments below and write an essay answering the posted questions. Integrate what you have learned about the era from your text with your analysis of the primary source reading. Although you will be presented with several questions, integrate your responses into a unified whole.
An excellent primary source essay will do the following:
Formatting directions:
Assignment Selections:
A. READ the following selection about the battle of Thermopylae from Herodotus’ The Histories:
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/herodotus-xerxes.html
Using the Spielvogel textbook and The Histories write an essay of 4-5 pages answering the following questions:
B. Or READ “Pericles’ Funeral Oration” from the The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides. You may use any book source for this that you choose, but it is available at:
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/pericles-funeralspeech.html
Also Read The Melian Debate at:
https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/melian.htm
(You must read and analyze BOTH primary sources.)
Using the Spielvogel textbook and both primary sources write an essay of 4-5 pages answering the following questions:
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