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This project won first place in the 2018 Signature Course Information Literacy Award. The award recognizes exemplary student work that achieves the learning outcomes of the Signature Course information literacy requirement, that students will be able to create and execute a research strategy, critically evaluate information, and use citations. This paper was nominated by Dr. Adam Rabinowitz from the Classics Department and was submitted in his Fall 2017 Signature Course “Tales of the Trojan War.” This project was chosen because Caroline Green did an exceptional job gathering and synthesizing a diverse array of sources and arrived at an interesting understanding of her topic. In his nomination, Dr. Rabinowitz illustrated this work: “Once she realized that her question (about the training that Homeric performers underwent) required a comparative approach rather than a literary one, she dove into a wide range of sources for oral performance -- and was willing, after the first draft, to abandon some that weren't as relevant to her work. The final draft of the paper was well-written and compelling, and included 14 sources that ranged from ancient primary texts, to academic works, to interviews and oral performances. I was particularly impressed with her ability to incorporate a startlingly wide variety of source types, including videos, audio recordings, and interview transcripts, along with the ancient sources and the standard publications.”