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Instruction: What I do NOT want you to do is simply to summarize the passage. I know what the passage says. Please don’t spend five sentences paraphrasing it. That’s boring and tells me nothing about what you know. And if the passage comes from a long work (like a Homeric Hymn or a tragedy), resist the temptation to start summarizing the plot of the entire work. By all means you can (and probably should) spend a sentence or two explaining the context of a passage within a longer work that we’ve read, but do not belabor it. I’d much rather you dwell on how the passage at issue reflects broader topics in Greek religious culture as a whole.So, spend your time on discussion of the religious themes and motifs you see present in the passage; or try to discuss important concepts (such as ritual, myth, prayer, sacrifice, aetiology, epichoric vs panhellenic, reciprocity or do ut des, pollution and purity, etc. etc.).You could also choose for certain passages to say something briefly about the author or the genre of the work from which the passage comes. For instance, what is a sacred law? Under what conditions did the Hesiodic Theogony take shape? How is tragedy itself part of a festival ritual, and a divine offering?Question: Moved by your prayer I come to you—I, the natural mother of all life, the mistress of the elements, the first child of time, the supreme divinity, the queen of those in hell, the first among those in heaven, the uniform manifestation of all gods and goddesses…. Behold, I am come to you in your calamity. I am come with solace and aid. Away then with tears. Cease to moan. Send sorrow packing. Soon through my providence shall the sun of your salvation arise.
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