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LA 211B
midterm
spring 2010

Write an essay, four to five double-spaced pages in length, on the role of details drawn from Roman religion in Aeneid 7.1-285. Your essay should be more than a simple listing of details, and should include a discussion of the different kinds of religious detail used by Vergil, the general nature of Roman religion as reflected in these details, and the effect(s) produced by the inclusion of these details in the poem.

Send your essaay as a Word document attached to an e-mail addressed to rosivach@fairfield.edu. Please type your return e-mail address at the top of the first page.  This assignment is due on Saturday, March 6 at 11:59 pm, but may be submitted at any time before that.  Except for illness or other similar emergency, there will be no extensions. Late assignments will be penalized a letter grade per day.

This midterm assignment will account for 20% of your semester grade. Treat it with appropriate seriousness.