History paper

Each project should be about two pages (maybe longer) in length.  In addition, your project must include complete bibliographic citation at the top left of the page (if necessary) with your name and date.

 

 

Book review (50 points). Write a review of the book. Do not just summarize the book’s contents but also examine its strengths and weaknesses and place the book in its proper historical context.  You can suggest a different book.

 

Archibald MacLeish, J. B.; Aristophanes, Lysistrata; Herodotus, Histories; Homer, The Iliad or The Odyssey; Plato, The Republic; Sophocles, Oedipus or Antigone; Thucydides, The Peloponnesian Wars; Arrian, Campaigns of Alexander; Julius Caesar,Commentaries on the Gallic Wars; Edward Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire; Plutarch, Parallel Lives of the Greeks and Romans; Virgil, The Aeneid; Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy; Bede, Ecclesiastical History; Beowulf; Egil’s Saga; Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy; Thomas Aquinas, Summa theologica; Umberto Ecco, The Name of the Rose; Chrétien de Troyes,Arthurian Romances; Giovanni Boccaccio, Decameron; François Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel; John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion; Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote; Alexander Dumas, The Three Musketeers; Sir Thomas More, Utopia; Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism.