Elaboration/discussion
Study the examples the author of the text offers to exemplify the influence of historical events on people`s everyday lives (e.g.WW2 bombing) and the way habits collide unpredictably with history and politics (e.g.a German returning a book to the library)( pp. 128-129 , At the end of the day) and let me know the following:
How do you think the current situation related to the outbreak of the virus affects our everyday lives and what might be its implications on the course of history?
Historians can focus on the latter and anthropologists on the former.
Classics students on either or both.
Do it in writing just as you would discuss it in class. (no more than 200 words)