Laurence Chan, Class Presentations Pt. 2

For my own presentation, I had decided to go a different route to the rest of the class, but similiar to the original course. I followed our own class themes of reading world texts, epics, stories of origins, and comparative literature. For my own idea I wanted to suggest a text that would easily mix and match with our other texts. In picking Virgil's The Aeneid, the class would have more material to compare and contrast with the other stories and texts of our class. I suggested some of my ideas in class for possible comparisons and contractions. Examples were comparing the tragic stories of women in Greek and Roman tragedies, such as Medea vs. Dido. A comparison of the heroes and their different glorified characteristics would also be a topic; Achilles was famous for his bloodlust and strength, but Aeneas while also a fighter was known as a respectful and dutiful leader.

Besides, the book was just fun to read.