User:Akbecker/Choose an Article

Article Selection
Please list articles that you're considering for your Wikipedia assignment below. Begin to critique these articles and find relevant sources.

Option 1

 * Hetaira:
 * Article Evaluation:This article does very little to bring in commentary about how hetaira influenced myth and vice versa. Hetaira played an extremely important social function in Ancient Greece that is mentioned on a surface level in this article.
 * Sources:Laura McClure

Option 2

 * Hellenistic Religion:
 * Article Evaluation
 * This article leaves out why there was conflict between Jewish communities and Hellenists, it fails to mention gymnasiums as an early form of what we now know as antisemitism and it's cultural function. Also no sources are cited in the Hellenistic Judaism section.:
 * Sources:

Option 3

 * Londinium:
 * Article Evaluation:The article does not mention the current cultural representations of Londinium and new findings that have informed our current understanding of the settlement.
 * Sources
 * Dark Earth by Rebecca Stott:

Option 4

 * Mythic fiction:
 * Article Evaluation:This article is severely underdeveloped especially with the recent resurgence in mythic fiction surrounding Greek myth retellings. This article needs to be developed.
 * Sources:

Option 5

 * Ancient Greek funeral and burial practices:
 * Article Evaluation:This article needs more citations and examples of grave goods that have been recently uncovered.
 * Sources: