Greek culture

Blog Topics:  The M6 Blog is another opportunity to research a topic that interests you about ancient Greek culture and to give you research and MLA documentation practice for The Odyssey essay.  You might want to know more about ancient Greek life:  sports, Olympics, medicine, philosophy, religion, entertainment, weddings, child rearing, slavery, hospitality, begging, dancing, pets, weather, money, architecture, art, pottery, housing, clothing, drama, music, death and burial, military, education, food, trade, ships, weddings, Greek men, Greek women, transportation, occupations, life spans, agriculture, ships, gods, and the like.  You need to find only two articles on your topic. Summarize each article in a paragraph.  Please follow the guidelines below.Researching the Blog:Make sure your website is a reliable one.  Avoid using Wikipedia or other online summaries such as Spark Notes or Shmoop as a research tool.  Do not include information from the text that we already know. If you can’t find much data on your topic, it’s best to change topics.  Your objective is to learn something new about the culture we are studying.
Writing the Blog: 1.  Text:  Start the first sentence of each paragraph by identifying the author and title of one of your articles.  If you do this, no reference note is required at the end of the sentence.  Should the author’s name not be given, start with the title of the article.  You just need (1) the author’s name and/or (2) the title of the article.  We put website titles in the Works Cited entry. 2.  Summarizing your article means using your own words to convey the essence of a source, using just enough information to record the points you want to emphasize. If you include some of the author’s words, enclose them in quotation marks. 
Works Cited:  In English and humanities classes, we use the MLA (Modern Language Association) system for documenting sources, so please do not use the APA system.  The Works Cited is the section at the end of your blog where we put information about each article and links or URLs to the articles.     A.  Writing the Works Cited Entry (A possible seven (7) items           1.  Alphabetize your two articles starting with the author’s last and first name followed by a period.           2.  Start with the article title in quotation marks followed by a period if no author.                 Arrange the entries alphabetically           3.  The website title is italicized and followed by a comma.            4.  The sponsor of the website may or may not be listed.  Follow the sponsor’s name with a comma.           5.  The date of the article should be written in this order:  day month year (14 May                 2020) followed by a comma.  If your article does not have a date, then insert                 the article access date after the URL.           6.  Last is the article link or URL. Start the URL with just the “www.”           7.  Insert an Access Date after the URL if your article did not have a date.  Example.                www…………../  Accessed 15 Sept. 2021.     B.  Works Cited Format           1.  Make sure the first line is flush with the left margin.            2.  Indent the second and subsequent lines of each entry by five spaces so that                your first line is the most prominent.                 This will  distinguish each entry so that no numbers or bullets are necessary.Student Blog Example:  (Citations are highlighted in aqua)Mayra Rienties, in her blog “Baring the Aegis: The Peculiar Place of Beggars in Ancient Hellenic Society,” describes how the ancient Greeks viewed being a beggar as a profession. In order for something to be a profession, it must serve a purpose, in this case beggars serve to help purify their host’s home. She explains that though people would never invite a beggar into their home, they would also never turn one away if they happened to wander up to the door. If a beggar appeared at your door, you would offer them food and perhaps ask them to tell a story in exchange or even beat another beggar who had wandered up after. Through this exchange it was believed that the beggar was taking the family’s impurities onto themselves and taking them with them when they left.
In her article, “Hospitality in the Ancient Greek World,” Kelly Taylor describes some of the other reasons why the ancient Greeks may have been so welcoming to strangers. She explains how the custom of the time was to welcome a stranger into your home, provide them with food and a place to rest and find out how you could assist them. She also explains two possible reasons for such gracious hospitality. The first reason is the belief that the gods often appeared in disguise, often as lowly beggars; therefore, to turn away a stranger could be equivalent to turning away one of the gods. The other reason she gives can best be described as karma. Those who treated strangers well were often treated well by the gods.
Works Cited
Rienties, Mayra. “Baring the Aegis: The Peculiar Place of Beggars in Ancient         Hellenic Society.” PAT Ritual Announcement:  the City Dionysia, 1 Jan. 1970,         baringtheaegis.blogspot.com/2012/08/the-peculiar-place-of-beggars-i.html.Taylor, Kelly. “Hospitality in the Ancient Greek World.” Hospitality in the Ancient         Greek World, 13 Dec. 1996,  www.crowdog.net/hospitality.html.
*Typing Tip:  To indent 5 spaces for the 2nd and 3rd lines of each Works Cited entry, click RETURN/SHIFT at the end of the first line of each entry and then use the space bar to space in 5 spaces.  Tabbing doesn’t work here.