Aesop paper/project

NOTE: I also explain these instructions in a video under Panopto Recordings called 'Description of Aesop assignment.'

• Read the Life of Aesop Download Life of Aesop, a text written during the Roman Empire about a Greek slave named Aesop.
• Craft a response, focusing on what kinds of things this text can tell us about Greco-Roman slavery.
  • Questions you might consider: What does the Life of Aesop reveal about the institution of Greco-Roman slavery and/or the lives of enslaved people? What does the Life of Aesop reveal about the ways in which enslavers (or other free people) viewed, thought about, and/or represented enslaved people and slavery?
• Your response can either be a ‘traditional’ essay or it can take a more ‘creative’ form.

• A ‘traditional’ essay should be approximately 750-1000 words long. In this essay, you should cite at least five specific examples from the text of the Life of Aesop to illustrate your points. Please do not quote from the Life of Aesop, but do include references (by paragraph number) to any specific passages you refer to or discuss:
• E.g. “The Life of Aesop shows us some of the ways in which the enslaved were poorly treated in the ancient world. For example, in one episode, an overseer hits an enslaved person working in the fields with a stick (Aesop 9).”
• A ‘creative’ response can take any form you’d like: e.g. drawings, a podcast, a song, a retelling of the story or part of the story from Aesop’s perspective, a critical fabulation, etc. If you choose this option, include with your assignment a ‘key’ explaining which passages of the Life of Aesop your piece is responding to (please refer to these passages by paragraph number), and you should cite at least five specific examples.
• E.g. “In my short story/drawing/painting, I tried to capture the brutality of slavery in the ancient world by depicting an enslaved person being hit with a stick by his overseer (Aesop 9).”

• No outside research is required for this paper! However, if you’d like to bring in other material (from lecture or assigned readings) to bolster your argument, or to present an interesting comparison, you are welcome to do so. Just make sure you CITE it!​
• ​Plagiarism (including use of AI) is not acceptable and will be penalized!