Prominent figure in science and technology in Ancient Greece and Rome

You will compile an anthology of ancient texts, modern scholarship, images and artifacts about a key figure in the history of ancient science and technology and weave these into a narrative. Examples include Archimedes, Aristotle, Ptolemy, and Galen. For each element in your anthology, you should justify its inclusion, pick out its most important features, describe its historical, social and intellectual context, and explain how it illustrates an important aspect, idea or approach to your figure. You must be sure to offer a critical commentary on each element, explaining its shortcomings or advantages as evidence. You may format this assignment as a regular text-focused “paper” or as a video presentation that combines text, image and video and includes voice annotations to those elements. In either case, your work must be polished and well prepared—free from typos, rehearsed, and professionally formatted.

papers should be at least four pages in length and no more than ten (excluding images, links to videos, notes and bibliography). Your project will be evaluated on the appropriate theme and scope of your figure; the accuracy of and relevance of your factual content; the relevance and range of your evidence, your ability to apply historical research methods and reasoning to it, your synthesis and analysis of it, and your critical evaluation of it. Your project must be polished—free from typos and errors of syntax, well-written, and professionally presented.