week8

1. Dionysus: he is the god of the grape harvest, winemaking and wine, of ritual madness, fertility,                           theatre and religious ecstasy in Greek mythology.
                     

2. Poseidon: he is one of the twelve Olympian deities of the pantheon in Greek mythology. His main                      domain is the ocean, and he is called the "God of the Sea". Additionally, he is referred to                      as "Earth-Shaker"due to his role in causing earthquakes, and has been called the "tamer of                     horses". He is usually depicted as an older male with curly hair and beard.
                         

3. Zeus: he is the "Father of Gods and men" who rules the Olympians of Mount Olympus, according                to the ancient Greek religion. He is the god of sky and thunder in Greek mythology. Zeus is                etymologically cognate with and, under Hellenic influence, became particularly closely                         identified with Roman Jupiter.
                       

4. Apollo: he is one of the most important and complex of the Olympian deities in classical Greek                        and Roman religion and Greek and Roman mythology. Apollo has been variously                               recognized as a god of light and the sun, truth and prophecy, healing, plague, music, poetry,                 and more. Apollo is the son of Zeus and Leto, and has a twin sister, the chaste huntress                          Artemis. Apollo is known in Greek-influenced Etruscan mythology as Apulu.
                               

week7

-cide: kill e.g. homocide；suicide；insecticide

-cracy: rule e.g.democracy；aristocracy

謝謝惠顧 thanks for your patronese

homeric epithet

week6

motif 母題

christian:1.catholic天主教徒

           2.protestant新教徒 

classical heroism    

week5

week 5

in medias res

epic poetry

Jove and Io

juno discovering jupiter with io

Jove and Europa

(The Abduction of Europa)

fatal woman

week4

1. Tiresias: she/he is a blind prophet of Apollo in Thebes, famous for clairvoyance and for being transformed into a woman for seven years. He was the son of the shepherd Everes and the nymph Chariclo. Tiresias participated fully in seven generations at Thebes, beginning as advisor to Cadmus himself.

                    

2. Oracle: an oracle was a person or agency considered to provide wise counsel or prophetic predictions or precognition of the future, inspired by the gods.

3. Condolence: Condolences are an expression of sympathy to someone who is experiencing pain arising from death, deep mental anguish, or misfortune. Condolence is not always expressed in sorrow or grievance, it can also be used to acknowledge a fellow feeling or even a common opinion.

4. Electra complex: it is a girl’s psychosexual competition with her mother for possession of her father. In the course of her psychosexual development, the complex is the girl's phallic stage; formation of a discrete sexual identity, a boy's analogous experience is the Oedipus complex.

                    

5. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance ; and a people who means to be their own governors, must arm themselves with the power knowledge gives. A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy or perhaps both.                                                                                                                                 by   James Madisonc

week3

1. Hermes: Hermes is a god of transitions and boundaries. He is quick and cunning, and moves freely                      between the worlds of the mortal and divine, as emissary and messenger of the                                      gods,intercessor between mortals and the divine, and conductor of souls into the                                  afterlife.
                     

2. Ares+ Aphrodite
 

week 2

WEEK 2

羅馬數字(roman numerals):1àI       

                       5àV

                       10àX

                       50àL

                       100àC

                       500àD

                       1000àM

            -<------->+ 逢4逢9-->減

非正文部分p253----->CCLIII

                    P149------>C XL IX

                                  C: 100 XL: 40=50-10  IX:9=10-1

傾國傾成的美色:the face that launched a thousand ships(指Helen)

Origin: Was this the face that launch'd a thousand ships

And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?

Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss.-------> Christopher Marlowe, in Doctor Faustusb

Bard:吟遊詩人