A 'B' paper lacks one or two of these qualities, a 'C' paper most of them, a 'D' paper almost all of them. An 'F' paper is one on which the writer has evidently expended no effort. These qualities are all in the forefront of my mind as I read a paper. Having read the paper three times, I assign it a grade that answers to my impressions of it as a whole. The following texts are available at the bookstore.
Electronic versions are also available .
Homer, Iliad , trans. For Homer, Virgil and Lucan, it is best if you have these translations, so that we are all working with the same text when we discuss passages in class. There are electronic texts of all these poems. The electronic texts are not a replacement for the paper texts. For Homer, Virgil, and Lucan, the biggest drawback of the electronic texzts is that the translation is extremely old and, I think, more difficult to read than the more recent version.