2013年10月9日 星期三

Western Literature(Week 5 ) 上課筆記

Topic : The Odyssey

1. introduction (The ancient world )

(1) dialectic method














(2) monotheistic
mono = one
the = god
Atheist

(3)The chosen

Hebrew自稱 (意:被上帝選中代替世人受苦受難)


(4) Babylon










    Babylon was a Semitic Akkadian city-stateof ancient Mesopotamia, the remains of which are found in present-day Hillah, Babil Governorate, Iraq, about 85 kilometressouth of Baghdad.

(5)Macedonia or Macedon was an ancient Greek kingdom.













(6)Athena is named after its patron goddess.
(7)Ancient Greeks considered their gods arbitray and capricious toward humans.

(8)Millennium
    A millennium (plural millennia) is a period of time equal to 1000 years. It derives from the Latin mille, thousand, andannus, year. It is often, but not necessarily, related to a particular dating system.

(9)Latin literature
    Latin literature includes the essays, histories, poems, plays, and other writings written in the Latin language. Latin literature was in many ways a continuation of Greek literature, using many of the same forms.Latin was the language of the ancient Romans.

(10) Augustus → Octavius 
Octopus has eight legs. (Oct 有8的意思)














    Augustuswas the founder of the Roman Empire and its first Emperor, ruling from 27 BC until his death in 14 AD.

(11) Carthage













    Carthageis a suburb of Tunis, Tunisia and was the centre of the Carthaginian Empire in antiquity. The city has existed for nearly 3,000 years, developing from a Phoenician colony of the 1st millennium BC into the capital of an ancient empire. It today has a population of 20,715 .



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