Ancient Near East

The Prospectus will consist of your proposed research question, your provisional argument, at least one ancient source that you will handle, at least 4 pieces of modern scholarship, a provisional introductory paragraph, and a provisional outline in which you discuss the essay paragraph by paragraph and section by section. You may choose almost any topic that has anything to do with the Ancient Near East down to 323 BC. I reserve the right to veto some topics. Normally this will consist of about 3 or more standard pages, double-spaced.