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Example of how to organize and write a comparison/contrast essay… Left Topic Right Temple of Amun-Ra, Karnak, Egypt, New Kingdom Egyptian, c. 1280 BCE Identification Parthenon, Athens, Greece, Classical Greek, c. 450 BCE King Sety I Patron (different) Pericles and the Athenian democracy Aristocracy/ monarchy Politics (different) Democracy Polytheistic, dedicated to Religion Amun-Ra as King of the Gods (similar) and god of revealed and hidden creation. Focused on afterlife. Polytheistic, dedicated to Athena as Goddess of War and Wisdom. Not focused on afterlife. Daily ritual, with a procession from darkness into light and the feeding and clothing of a statue of Amun-Ra Ritual and frequency of use (similar; frequency different) Annual Panathenaic procession ending in dressing the cult statue of Athena in a new peplos and sacrifices/feasting. Egyptian sandstone quarried with heat and stone tools Materials and tools (different) Time and Place (different) Painted Pentelic marble quarried with durable metal tools Decoration (different, reflecting function) Columns (Similar vocabulary) Idealized scenes of the Panatheaic process and the Greek victories over monsters (Centaurs) Doric and Ionic columns 800 years older, 500 miles southeast, across the Mediterranean Sea Hieroglyphic scenes of the daily ritual in the Hypostyle hall Papyrus buds and blossoms Wooden or stone statue of Amun-Ra for the ka of god Sculpture in shrine (different) Chryselephantine sculpture of Athena as treasury Obelisks in Oakwood cemetery Local connections (similar) Doric and Ionic columns on local buildings, such as Madden Hall. Limited to priests and king, especially past third pylon Access (similar) Temple itself is limited to priests, acropolis was full of people during Panatheneic procession. 1. Use this formula when writing an introductory paragraph to a comparison/contrast essay: These two objects are similar in that topic, topic, topic, and topic. However, they are different in that topic, topic, topic, and topic. (Do not provide details in the intro.) For example, using the comparison of the Temple of Amun-Ra and the Parthenon, the introduction would read as follows: On the left is the Temple of Amun-Ra, in Karnak, Egypt (c. 1280 BCE, New Kingdom Egypt) and on the right is the Parthenon, in Athens, Greece (c. 450 BCE, Classical Greece). They are similar in that they are monumental temples designed for limited access and featuring large, stone columns and painted decorations. In addition, both buildings were the focus of religious rituals, and one can find features on both of these buildings in local structures. However, they were mostly different. They were built many miles and years apart using different materials, tools, and styles. They had distinctly different patrons and cultures with distinctly different religious beliefs, rituals, purposes and political practices. The sculptures on both of these temples help to explain their distinctly different purposes. 2. To write a paragraph with a topic sentence, select one topic (or a cluster of related topics) from your grid and elaborate on all of the details related to the topics that appear in your grid. Start the paragraph with a topic sentence. For example, using the topics of “functions” and “rituals” for the Temple of Amun-Ra and the Parthenon, the paragraph might read as follows. (I have marked the topic sentence in bold): The functions and rituals of these two temples are mostly different. While both temples were religious centers, King Sety I and his priests used the Temple of Amun-Ra to keep the Egyptian god Amun-Ra happy. They did this daily by processing through the darkness of the Hypostyle Hall into light near the obelisks between the third and fourth pylons and attending to the god’s needs, whose spirit, they believed, inhabited a sculpture of the god that they kept in the Temple’s inner sanctuary. The relief carvings in the hypostyle hall reflect these rituals, which include offering the statue incense, food, drink, clothing, and make-up. By way of contrast, the Parthenon was a bank for the community’s treasury, which took the form of a chryselephantine sculpture of the goddess Athena in the Temple’s cella. The temple was also a symbol of Greek unity, military strength, and intelligence and a site of an annual ritual, the Panathenaic Procession. Scenes of the procession, in which the Greeks deliver animal sacrifices and a new peplos to the statue of Athena, appear on the Temple’s Ionic frieze.