{"id":2870,"date":"2022-04-14T22:44:59","date_gmt":"2022-04-14T22:44:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highclasswriters.com\/blog\/?p=2870"},"modified":"2022-04-14T22:45:02","modified_gmt":"2022-04-14T22:45:02","slug":"arrians-anabasis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highclasswriters.com\/blog\/arrians-anabasis\/","title":{"rendered":"Arrian&#8217;s Anabasis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Objectives:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>To introduce you to the ancient historians who are seen by ancient and modern scholars alike as essential to our understanding of history<\/li><li>To experience the authors\u2019 literariness and differing aims and methods of writing history.<\/li><li>To introduce you to works of literature that are characterized as important to the Western canon of literature.<\/li><li>To show an in-depth understanding of a central text and how it fits into the larger context of Greek culture and society.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Instructions.<strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/strong>The following are the rules for all papers:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Your essays must be 1.5-double spaced, size 12 font, New Times Roman.<\/li><li>Make sure that your name, date, course and course number are on the paper<\/li><li>Provide a title that suitably describes your paper.<\/li><li>Papers should be analytical and argumentative.&nbsp; Do not just describe what is going on in the text.&nbsp; You want to argue something.&nbsp;<\/li><li>Provide a clear and arguable thesis early in your paper.<\/li><li>In order to argue about a text effectively, you must provide numerous examples from the primary source to support your claims.<\/li><li>Citation from the text must be consistent (if you use in-text citation, do so throughout. 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