DakinV

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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Adam (Wiki Ed) (talk) 01:16, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

Comments on article

• When citing the Iliad (for example), it's not "pp. 18.478-616" -- you can omit the "pp." :)
• We should talk about what sorts of things you need to cite when. You often cite when you DON'T need to, but you also don't always cite the right things when you SHOULD cite something. (For instance, your first paragraph under The Iliad ends with a point of interpretation -- that needs a scholarly source, but you simply cite "The Odyssey". By contrast, in discussing the belt of Heracles, you give the citation from the Odyssey -- and that's enough, you don't need to re-cite it every time you say something about it.)
• Why not list out the scenes of the Shield of Achilles, as you do with Jason's Cloak and the Shield of Aeneas?
• There are a few other substantial ekphrases in The Odyssey, at LEAST -- for instance, the brooch and cloak that Odysseus describes to Penelope. Do you want to include these?
• There are tons of ekphraseis in Ovid's Metamorphoses, obviously -- do you want to add at least the Palace of the Sun from Book 2, and maybe the cup with the plague at Thebes in Book 13?
• You might be able to find some places to link to your fellow students' wiki pages -- for instance, Eva is working on heroic characteristics, and I see a prime spot for linking to that.
• Notice places that other people have marked "citation needed" -- see if you can address those.
• We read Catullus 64... want to address that? :)
• See if you can address David's peer review comments.

Dakrasne (talk) 05:23, 3 May 2016 (UTC)