Write An essay on Ancient Greek literature

Essay prompts are attached.
500 words for an essay – pick either option 3 or 4.Instructions
• You should reference specific texts that we have read this semester, but it is not necessary to provide specific quotes or line numbers (ex: When Odysseus meets the Cyclops in Book 9)Plese, write about option three OR four:
3. The Romans’ civic identity had a constant tension between Rome’s indebtedness to Greek culture and the desire to project its own cultural influence over a growing empire. One response to this problem (that we have not read in our texts) is for Roman authors to claim that the Greeks were great at writing about heroic deeds in the past while the Romans were performing heroic deeds themselves in the present. What is another approach to dealing with this question of Greek influence that we find in Vergil’s Aeneid and Ovid’s Metamorphoses? Give a specific example from each text that responds to passages or concepts that we discussed in Greek literature.4. Aeneas is sometimes described as a “Roman Achilles.” From what we know of Achilles through Homer’s Odysseus and Statius’s Achilleid, what do you think are some key similarities or differences between these two heroes?