The learning goals and literacies this assignment addresses are:

• Read critically and analyze closely literary texts and modern scholarship.
• Develop multi- and cross-cultural perspectives and apply them to gender, ethnic, and social issues.
• Evaluate the merits of those sources in terms of content and reliability.
• Deploy scholarly databases to acquire, manage, evaluate, create, and communicate knowledge.

This assignment was the end of semester project for Latin Poetry: Virgil. I found 6 scholarly sources relating to the role of female characters in Virgil’s Aeneid and annotated them with the source’s main ideas and what I would utilize them for in a theoretical paper on the role of femininity in Virgil’s Aeneid. This assignment fits as a culmination of looking at the Aeneid as a whole after a semester of close textual analysis in Latin and broader discussions of themes in the Aeneid.

This item is moderately successful. I was very successful at finding useful secondary sources, discussing all angles of femininity – the important roles of Dido and Camilla, the female deities and even the female background characters. I think I could’ve expanded on the annotations more, they look a little short.

This item changed my perspective on the scholarly literature surrounding femininity in Ancient Classical texts written by men. There is a lot of hidden information in Virgil’s word choices, characterization of Dido and Camilla and his manipulated interactions of the feminine.

If I could redo this assignment, I would add more to the annotations in terms of how I would use this source in my hypothetical paper. I would also format this annotated bibliography more in line with MLA, APA or Chicago standard styles.