Character Analysis - Aphrodite (Greek history) Points to write on 1. Definition and difference with of Myth Legend and History 2. Focus Question: How did histories come to be constructed'? 3. Should the character and story you have chosen be regarded as myth or history, or could it [or any aspect of it] be both? Reading to look from: Homer, The Iliad, tr. Robert Fagles, New York, Viking, 1990, pp. 77-97. Homer, The Iliad, Book 6, tr. Robert Fitzgerald, London, Anchor Press/Double Day, 1974, lines 1 - 533 Powell, Barry, Classical Myth, 6th edition, NY, Pearson-Longman, 2009, pp.2-8. Raaflaub, Kurt, 'Historicity of Homer' in Margalit Finkelberg (ed.) The Homer Encyclopedia v.2 , New York, Wiley, 2011, p.359 -360. Lyons, Deborah, 'Women' in in Margalit Finkelberg (ed.) The Homer Encyclopedia v.2 , New York, Wiley, 2011, pp.939-940. Michael Grant, Myths of the Greeks and Romans [1962] New York, Meridian Books, 1995, pp. xvii-xx. Powell, Barry, Classical Myth, 6th edition, NY, Pearson-Longman, 2009, pp. 62-71. Carpenter, Thomas, Art and Myth in Ancient Greece, London, Thames and Hudson, 1991, pp. 7-9. Powell, Barry, Classical Myth, 6th edition, NY, Pearson-Longman, 2009, pp. 143-5 [The Three Graces] Radice, Betty, Who's Who in the Ancient World: A Handbook to the survivors of the Greek and Roman Classics, Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1971, 1972 (various) Herodotus, The Histories, tr. Aubrey de Selincourt, Marincola, John (ed.), Harmondsworth, Penguin, 2003, pp.3-11, 466-467. Marincola, John, 'Historians and Homer', in Margalit Finkelberg (ed.) The Homer Encyclopedia v.2 , New York, Wiley, 2011, pp. 357-359. Fornara, C. W., The Nature of History in Ancient Greece and Rome, Berkeley, University of California Press, 1983, pp. 60-63. Grant, Michael, 'The methods of Herodotus,' The Ancient Historians, London, Wiedenfeld and Nicolson, 1970, pp. 57-66. see also for comparisons Michael Grant, 'The methods of Thucydides', The ancient historians, pp. 114-21