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Ancient Greek EPQ help?

I'm about to start my EPQ early, and our teachers want us to do a Dragon's Den-type Presentation on what subjects we want to do it on, and to be honest, nothing's going in? I understand the basic concept, but I'm just a bit confused on A. What subject to do it on, and B. How I'm meant to world the question? Argument? Not sure if you can understand what I mean, but hopefully it does.

For reference, I plan to do an Archaeology and Ancient History course at Uni, and develop a Specialisation in one of the Ancient Greek Periods. (Archaic, Classical, etc.) I study Ancient History at College, just about finished the first year, which goes over Classical Greece from about 399BCE-505BCE if I remember right, so I planned on potentially doing either on how their Ancient Society developed certain constructs (Gender, Sexuality, Cultural/Religious Identities, etc.) in contrast to Greece's society today, Colonisation of the Mediterranean, or on Greek Mythology (not sure I want to do it on how women are represented as villainous, I've seen it on different forums here, and I know I'd get "too feminist" and angry over it to not end up on a tangent, I'd lose the enjoyment of it) all three avoid crossing with my First Year's content, but I'm just struggling to come up with something good? With just a hint of originality?? I know this is really long, so thank you if you do. Any help you could give would be appreciated :smile:

- Mik <3
Original post by arkiia
I'm about to start my EPQ early, and our teachers want us to do a Dragon's Den-type Presentation on what subjects we want to do it on, and to be honest, nothing's going in? I understand the basic concept, but I'm just a bit confused on A. What subject to do it on, and B. How I'm meant to world the question? Argument? Not sure if you can understand what I mean, but hopefully it does.

For reference, I plan to do an Archaeology and Ancient History course at Uni, and develop a Specialisation in one of the Ancient Greek Periods. (Archaic, Classical, etc.) I study Ancient History at College, just about finished the first year, which goes over Classical Greece from about 399BCE-505BCE if I remember right, so I planned on potentially doing either on how their Ancient Society developed certain constructs (Gender, Sexuality, Cultural/Religious Identities, etc.) in contrast to Greece's society today, Colonisation of the Mediterranean, or on Greek Mythology (not sure I want to do it on how women are represented as villainous, I've seen it on different forums here, and I know I'd get "too feminist" and angry over it to not end up on a tangent, I'd lose the enjoyment of it) all three avoid crossing with my First Year's content, but I'm just struggling to come up with something good? With just a hint of originality?? I know this is really long, so thank you if you do. Any help you could give would be appreciated :smile:

- Mik <3


Hi!

I'm currently doing Ancient History at Manchester so hopefully I can offer some questions/ideas! I did my EPQ on the end of the Roman Republic so if you need any EPQ help lmk :smile:

You want to keep the question quite specific, I made mine horrifically broad and had to beg to be given more words!
For classical Greece: you could explore the evolution of religion- Socrates trial, contrast Homer/Hesiod to mystery cults etc
role of women- were they oppressed? To a modern audience they were but would they consider themselves oppressed?
Sexuality- Were they truly as sexually liberated as we think today? Look into the role of status in sex etc
Colonisation of the Med- I have just done a module of the med and it was so so interesting!
-Reasons for colonisation; push-pull theorem, passive or agressive, tyrannical or democratic etc
-types of colonisation/different roles emphorion, apoikia, metropolis, oikstes
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relationship between Polis and colony
Mythology: this is so so hard as there are many different versions of myths and interpretations
-if you've read any epic poetry, the role of goddess would be very interesting to explore; how are they presented, compare to other works

If you're worried about going on tangents either make the title a question whereby you have a specific answer or ask yourself 'to what extent'. I would avoid discuss questions as you don't have strict guidelines. Make sure to plan, re-plan and plan again, this not only helps your argument but also is good to reference in your production log!
Hope this helped:smile:

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