• Compare and contrast a particular sport from the classical Olympics and the modern Olympics. Eg, wrestling. The sport could be the same sport used for the timeline assignment. Alternatively, one can contrast a classical sport with a modern sport that is new and in this case, part of the assignment is looking at why there are new games.
• Further, you must demonstrate how a certain type of historian or historians, may interpret these historical changes from the classical to modern Games.: e.g. empirical dates and places, hermeneutical methods, Hegelian dialectic, etc.
• research essay that
  • develops your particular approach to answering the question,
  • establishes your arguments,
  • provides support for these arguments (both from the assigned readings and external sources), and
  • summarizes everything in a conclusion.