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1. Athens in 700 BCE

2. Athens in 590 BCE

3. Athens in 478 BCE

4. Athens in 300 BCE

5. Athens in 138 BCE

6. Athens in 86 BCE

7. Athens in 132 CE

8. Athens in 1811 CE

Instructions for Walking Tour PPt presentation and Text:

A 30-40 minute long PowerPoint presentation and written text to accompany the PowerPoint of a walking tour of ancient Athens to be taken by a historical figure in a particular year. This is a collaborative project, and you will work in teams. Each team will create a single PowerPoint presentation and accompanying text (a model is posted on the website for you to consult--see below). I will select the time periods for the walking tour; each team will draw a time period from a hat and then each team will select an appropriate historical figure who will lead us on the walking tour. Note that this is a research project and not an exercise in creative writing. Your description of the Athens of your walking tour and of your historical narrator must be historically and archaeologically accurate; your accompanying text will therefore need to include footnotes and a Works Cited page. On the day your PowerPoint presentation is to be given, one member of the team must bring me the Word or WordPerfect text of the tour and the PowerPoint presentation on a memory stick, CD etc. so that I can load it on the website. Additional information will be distributed later in the semester. This project will be graded on a 0-100 point (A-F) scale, and each member of the team will receive the same grade.

Special instructions for the walking tour PPt and text:

• PPt must not exceed time allotted for it (for example, it generally takes me 40 minutes to read a 20 page text)
• text must be written and submitted as either a Word or WordPerfect file
• text must include footnotes and Works Cited
• length: 15-20 pages (excluding Works Cited)
  

• Click here for a sample of a PowerPoint presentation for a walking tour of Athens in 403 BCE.
• Click here for the text that accompanies the PowerPoint