Writing an Introduction

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Use a strong statement At the age of seven, boys in Sparta were removed from their homes and placed in a military school. To the Spartans, it was important to have a strong and healthy army that could protect their city-state, and from an early age, Sparta boys were raised to be great warriors. In this report, learn more about …

Use a Quotation “Picture yourself under this helmet. Yes—you too can become a gladiator of Rome and fight in the arena! All it takes is hard work, training and a lot of bad luck.” For some people, being a gladiator offered wealth and fame. For others, it meant death although an honorable death. This report will explore the world of the gladiator. It will…

Use an anecdote Imagine competing in the ancient Greek Olympics and killing your father, the king, when you accidentally hit him in the head with the discus you threw. This is one of the myths written about the ancient Olympics which began in 776 BC in Olympia to honor the gods. This report will further explain…

Use a statistic or fact When Helen left Sparta with Paris, her husband, King Menelaus, headed to Troy with 1,013 ships. This begins the Trojan War which was fought between the Greeks and the Trojans on the west coast of Turkey. After ten years of fighting, the Greeks devised a plan to invade the city of Troy with a giant wooden horse. This report will…

Use a question If you opened the gates of your city and saw a huge, wooden horse offered as a gift from the Greeks, would you take it through the gates of your city? That’s the decision the Trojans had to make during the ten-year Trojan War. The Greeks had boarded their ships and were sailing back to Greece, or at least, that is what the Trojans believed. This report will explain how

Use an exaggeration You have been training all year to enter the Olympic Games in your best event—wrestling. You arrive at the games and discover your opponent is twice your size, and he is known for eye gouging and biting when the referee is not looking. What will you do? As you will read in this report, there were no weight classes, so you could be paired with someone much larger than yourself. Also rules for the ancient Olympic Games were not as strict and not as strictly enforced. The ancient Greek Olympics will be covered in this report along with…

Use an unusual detail Many gladiators lived and died without ever seeing the amphitheatre in Rome. The well-known Amphitheatrum Flavium was not the only arena which held gladiator fights. There was the arena of Ephesus in Asia Minor, the arena of Codex Gladiorum located in Britain, and the arena of Carthage located in Northern Africa. Gladiators were sent all over the Roman Empire to entertain the people. This report will discuss…

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