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myth-: an idea or story that is believed by many people but that is not true

mythology

莎莎老師提醒:不要錢的最貴!不勞而獲要付出最大代價!

You can't never predict the future.

week 3 p.xix-xxiv

p.3~5  p.181-188  p.189-290(The Iliad)

p.290-581(The Odysseus)

Ithaca: For the city in New York State.

Nature: the way that a person or animal behaves;  the physical world and everything in it (such as plants, animals, mountains, oceans, stars, etc.) that is not made by people; the natural forces that control what happens in the world

plague : is a deadly infectious disease that is caused by the enterobacteria Yersinia pestis, named after the French-Swiss bacteriologist Alexandre Yersin.

Artemis  Diana管小孩.月亮

Hephaistos(Hephaestus) 's wife is Aphrodite(以美麗著名).

Aphrodite和戰神Ares有婚外情

Ares Aphrodite affair

helmet: a covering or enclosing headpiece of ancient or medieval armor

crisis:  the turning point for better or worse in an acute disease or fever

Hermes 傳遞訊息的神 Mercury

de- down,away from  ex. decline, depreciate, departure

catastrophe: the final event of the dramatic action especially of a tragedy

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Pinyin system- easy to learn

Chinese character

tetra- four

mono- one

bi- two  ex. bigamy

tri- three  ex. trigonometry

qua- four

penta- five

oct- eight  ex. octopus

nov- eleven  ex. innovation, renovation

River Styx- Achilles由來

Jesus, Jacob, Joseph  在古代I和J一樣

god神  God我們的神

回家將目錄依syllabus標

1 I

5 V

10 X

50 L

100 C

500 D

1000 M

medi-

terranean

ae在一起a不發音

convert

西洋文學概論-Notes on Helen of Troy,notes on Trojan War

launch- get started

If a face could launch a thousand ships,

Then where am I to go ?---------Faustus

mor, mort- death  ex. morgue, mortian, mortgage, mortify

Immortals不會死的人

eris

Castor and Pollux跟雙子座有關

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lyre 七弦琴(阿波羅最愛的樂器)

Lyrics: are a set of words that make up a song, usually consisting of verses and choruses. The writer of lyrics is alyricist. The words to an extended musical composition such as an opera are, however, usually known as a "libretto" and their writer, as a "librettist". The meaning of lyrics can either be explicit or implicit. Some lyrics are abstract, almost unintelligible, and, in such cases, their explication emphasizes form, articulation, meter, and symmetry of expression.

Sappho of Lesbos 女同志代詞(lesbian)

epic poetry- a lengthy narrative poem, ordinarily concerning a serious subject containing details of heroic deeds and events significant to a culture or nation.

名詞解釋要列出

1.What is that?

2.What is that for?

3.Why should we care?

4.For example

genre- kind or sort

A man of  literature or a man of letters: Robert Frost

di- 一分為二 ex. divorce, different, divide

Intro to American Literature

What is literature?  Performance in words.

What is literature for?

1.Improve your language proficiency.

2.Enrich your knowledge about the English culture.

3.Help you explore the nature of human beings. It gives you spiritual and psychological relief.

Why is it necessary for you to study literature?

sym-wish you together

sympathy

a-not  ex. apathy

atheist

mono- one  ex. monotheism

Third-person view

How to study literature

1. Analytical  Approach

2. Thematical Approach

3. Historical Approach

ori- beginning, stand for  ex. original,originate, orientation

每次上課前要預習

回家看Helen of Troy

The Imnortals 考10%