※“knowledge will forever govern ignorance:And a people who mean be their own Governors,must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”-------James Madison
※Tiresias→strikes two snakes with a stick,and is transformed into a woman for 7 days by Hera
→is a blind prophet
※Moirae is the three goddess of fate or destiny
※The face that launched a thousand ships........ by The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus,Christopher Marlowe.
※Eris→the goddess of choas,strife,and discord,its symbol is Golded Apple of Discord
※Iliad(wandering)
1.is about ancient Greek epic poem
2.set during the Trojan War,the ten-year siege of city of Troy
3.mentions or alludes to many Greek legends about the siege
※Odyssey(conflict)
1.is about ancient Greek epic poem
2.about Odysseus and his journey home after he fall of Troy
3.It takes ten years to reach Ithaca
※The Hebrew Bible, or Tanakh, contains twenty-four books divided into three parts: the five books of the Torah ("teaching" or "law"), the Nevi'im ("prophets"), and the Ketuvim ("writings").
※Christian Bibles range from the sixty-six books of the Protestant canon to the eighty-one books of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church canon. The first part of Christian Bibles is the Old Testament, which contains, at minimum, the twenty-four books of the Hebrew Bible divided into thirty-nine books and ordered differently from the Hebrew Bible.
※Odysseus is renowned for his brilliance,guile,and versatility.He offend Posidon,and spends ten years to return home.(Odyssey)
Telemachus is the son of Odysseu,and is a central character in Homer's Odyssey
(Telemachy) focus on Telemachus's journeys in search of news about his father,who didn't come home.
※Clytemnestra killed Agamemnon with Aegisthus because he killed her daughter,Iphigenia.
Electra and Orestes killed their mom and Aegisthus because of revenge.
※Orestia is a trilogy of Greek tragedies written by Aeschylus which concerns the end of the curse on the House of Atreus.
※The Three Tragedies of Greek
1.Agamemnon---------by Aeschylus
2.Oedipus the King --------by Sophocles
3.Medea -----------by Euripides
Ter-:land
territorialize:organize as a territory e.g.The railways were territorialized.
territory:a region marked off for administrative or other purposes e.g.We crossed the river into enemy territory.
en-:put into
entreat:to ask someone to do something for you in a way that shows you are very upset e.g.The prophet entreats all people to become good persons.
enrich:to improve the quality of something, especially by adding things to it e.g.The oil boom enriched a lot of people.
enlarge:make larger e.g.She enlarged the flower beds.
生字
◎Electra complex戀父情結
Oedipus complex戀母情結
◎condolence----》an expression of sympathy with another grief
◎oracle----》an authoritative person who divines the future
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