Presentations

Short Course Papers

Please note: These papers were prepared for the Greek Science course taught at Tufts University by Prof. Gregory Crane in the spring of 1995. The Perseus Project does not and has not edited these student papers. We assume no responsibility over the content of these papers: we present them as is as a part of the course, not as documents in the Perseus Digital Library. We do not have contact information for the authors. Please keep that in mind while reading these papers.

These papers are works in progress, which should be evaluated for class.

Timothy Reluga The Golden Section
Jesse Weissman Empedocles of Acragas
Jordana Wiener Aristotle's Syllogism
Ben Zarit Thucydides:The Revolution of Corcyra
Luke Harms Discoursting
Ellen Brundige Inventing the Solar System
Jin Chung The Creation and Destruction of the Gods
Kathleen Norton Thales
Jeff Kostiuk Pre-Socratic Euripides
Thomas Fowler Aristotle's Astronomy
Chris Weinkopf Categories of Greek Mathematics
Mike Tirabassi Plato on Astronomy
Marc Wohnsigl Leucippus and Democritus
Kristen Riley Zeno of Elea
Andrea Marcogliese Aristotle on Teeth
Chad Colarusso Thucydides, The Plague of Athens

Evaluations

Between now and Friday, you need to look through the other c lass projects. You each need to find one project which you would like to single out for praise and another for which you would like to offer suggestions. (You can offer praise and suggestions for the same project, but you must consider at least two projects.)

Here are some criteria which you should consider:

Does the project fit the course topic? How well does this piece contribute to our understanding of an aspect of ancient science?
What is the main point of this project? Is it clear or did you have to work to figure out what the author was trying to accomplish?
How well did the author utilize the tools at her or his disposal? Are there diagrams or pictures that would have helped? First, how might you cover this topic in an ideal world? Second how might the author reasonably do this given the tools available? Would diagrams or pictures have helped? more text links? more specific text links?
How well executed is the project? Are there typos? Is the general style clear?

Be prepared to talk about other projects during class on Friday.

Between now and Tuesday, you will need to evaluate all of the projects. You need to rate each one as "needs work", "good", or "excellent" based on the above criteria.

At the top of each paper, there will be a link to a comment form. Simply type your name, click on your score for the paper, and add any comments you have. After you are satisfied, click on the "Add the comment" button. Click the "Start over" button to erase what you have written.

Next Wednesday will be a transitional class in which we consider ancient math for part of the class and then discuss topics for the main paper. You should be prepared to explain to the rest of the class what you propose to do.