Your assignment is to write a 6 to 8 page term paper exploring the relationship between ancient human history and the modern world. Essentially, you are connecting the distant past with the present. You could evaluate how and why different societies today use elements from the ancient world in creating their own forms of culture. Your analysis must focus on one of the following seven categories:
1. Blood and Sweat: Greco-Roman Sport and Modern Sport
2. Heroes and Villians: Star Wars and Our Ancient World
3. Good and Evil: Earth and Middle-earth
4. Teacher and Savior: The Historical Jesus and Cinematic Crisis
5. Tombs and Monuments: Ancient Architecture in the Modern World
6. Mortals and Immortals: Ancient Gods and Modern Superheroes
7. Laughing and Crying: Ancient and Modern Theater
By ancient, you can focus on any time period prior to one millenium ago. Modern refers to the past two centuries.
