Western Literature(Week 3 ) 上課筆記

Topic : Homer, The Iliad

1. 羅馬數字

(1)往右+，往左 -。

(2)逢4逢9用減法。

(3) 十位數歸十位數管，個位數歸個位數管。

(4) 代號

Ⅰ   Ⅱ   Ⅲ   Ⅳ   Ⅴ   Ⅵ   Ⅶ   Ⅷ   Ⅸ   Ⅹ   

1  2    3    4    5    6     7      8     9   10  

 L         C          D          M

50       100      500       1000

ex. XL = 50 - 10 = 40

     XC = 100 - 10 = 90

     2013 = 2000+10+3 =  MMXⅢ

2. Textbook (Page 7)

(1) 依照課綱畫重點。
(2) page 1-12 (The ancient world )
(3) midtern :  Epic poetry (genre)
     final  exam :  comedy and tragedy 

(4) Odyssey 
Odysseus and his journey home after the fall of Troy.

(5) Aeneid
The Aenied is a Latin epic poem , written by Virgil between 29 and 19 B.C. , that tells the legendary story of Aeneas.

(6) Genesis

(7) Tower of Babel

a. 

    The Tower of Babel forms the focus of a story told in the Book of Genesis of the Bible.

b. Babel (火線交錯)

(8) The King James Version

    The King James Version , commonly known as theAuthorized Version  or King James Bible , is anEnglish translation of the Christian Bible for the Church of Englandbegun in 1604 and completed in 1611.

(9) Homer 

a. The Iliad (Greek)

(10) In medias res

    In medias res is the literary and artisticnarrative technique of relating a story from the midpoint, rather than the beginning.In an in medias res narrative, the story opens with dramatic action rather than exposition setting up the characters and situation.
    It entails subsequent use of flashback and nonlinear narrative for exposition of earlier events in order to fill in the backstory. For example, in Homer's Odyssey.

3. Conflicts

4. After class...

(1) Read Notes on Trojan War and Greek Immortals.
(2) 期中考名詞解釋 :
homeric epithet , epic , in medias res