Kyrda Hedrick

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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Adam (Wiki Ed) (talk) 04:49, 18 February 2016 (UTC)

Article choices

Nostos would be a great page to edit, Kyrda, but don't forget that you need to come up with several choices in addition to settling on one -- that's unfortunately part of the assignment! This way, if someone else also wants to edit the nostos article, you have additional possibilities to turn to. Dakrasne (talk) 01:22, 8 March 2016 (UTC)

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Peer Review

Hi Kyrda this is Dakin just leaving you your peer review. So immediately I was impressed by the amount of information that you were able to put onto your page about Katabasis. I enjoyed how you explained Katabasis in the mythological sense and even added that it isn't just about going to the underworld but can also be about traversing through a dystopic area such as what Odysseus does during his journeys. It was nice that you made a new section in the wiki to show all of the changes that you put so your reader doesn't have to search the entire page for Katabasis in ancient writings. I also liked the picture with Aeneas but if you are going to use pictures from different stories or sources you will have to put a section about that as well. It would actually beef up your article too if you put how Katabasis is interpreted in other Epics. You could even make another section about how the journey is different in different styles such as how Roman writers created a different journey than the Greek writers did. Also you referenced Anabis during your article but never offered a definition for it or a link to Anabis in ancient writings. Overall I think it was a good read and it was a very detailed piece about Katabasis in the Odyssey, I just think you could add more to it is all. — Preceding unsigned comment added by DakinV (talk • contribs) 21:03, 1 May 2016 (UTC)

Redirected Talk page

Hello, Kyra Hedrick! Please don’t keep putting your course template on the redirect page for Talk:Athletics in Epic Poetry, which was automatically created when the content was “moved” (viz renamed) to conform with WP’s conventions on capitalization of article titles. Redirects are meant to be like the entries in printed reference works that say only “See X”, so should have no other visible content. The actual Talk page still has the tag that was added under its original name. Feel free to leave me (or your course liaison) a message, or just reply here, if you have any questions.—Odysseus1479 23:27, 1 May 2016 (UTC)

Comments on article

• Nice start on the new katabasis article.
• One thing I'd suggest doing that would be a big benefit to Wikipedia is figure out whether "katabasis" and "descent to the underworld" really deserve to be two separate pages, and figure out how to merge them appropriately if not -- and if they should stay separate, you might still want to address the organization of the katabasis page.
• We've had multiple katabases in the Metamorphoses, and a symbolic katabasis in Lucretius; will you add these, or only have the Odyssey and Aeneid?

Dakrasne (talk) 05:35, 3 May 2016 (UTC)