Week03
Introduction to Western Literature:
1.
In media res: Opens in the midst of action. Often, exposition is bypassed and filled in gradually either through dialogue, flashbacks or description of past events.
2.
Foreshadow: To
present an indication or a suggestion of beforehand.
3.
Chrysies: a
Trojan woman, the daughter of Chryses. >>> crisis: A crucial or
decisive point or situation, especially a difficult or unstable situation
involving an impending change.
4.
Briseis: a
mythical queen in Asia Minor at the time of the Trojan War.
5.
Telemachus: a
figure in Greek mythology, the son of Odysseus and Penelope, and a central
character in Homer's Odyssey.
6.
Red Hair
King: Menelaus, was a king of Mycenaean (pre-Dorian) Sparta, the husband of
Helen of Troy, and a central figure in the Trojan War.
Marble bust of Menelaus
7.
Achilles: a
Greek hero of the Trojan War and the central character and greatest warrior of
Homer's Iliad.
Achilles and the Nereid Cymothoe
8.
Achilles’
heel: a small but fatal weakness.
9.
Peleus: a king
of the island of Aegina, who married the sea-nymph Thetis with whom he fathered
Achilles.
10. Thetis: sea nymph or known as the goddess of
water, one of the fifty Nereids, daughters of the ancient sea god Nereus.
11. Eris: the goddess of discord in Greek mythology.
12. At Peleus and Thetis wedding:
13. Metamorphoses: 變形記
14. Heifer: A young cow, especially one that has not yet
given birth to a calf.
15. Cub: One of the young of bears, wolves, lions,
pandas, or certain other animals.
16. Nymph: Greek & Roman Mythology Any of
numerous minor deities represented as beautiful maidens inhabiting and
sometimes personifying features of nature such as trees, waters, and mountains; A sexually mature and attractive young woman.
17. Demeter(Ceres): Goddess of agriculture,
fertility, and the harvest.
Demeter
18. Persephone(Cora): Goddess of the Underworld,
springtime, vegetation, and maidenhood.
Statue of Isis-Persephone
19. Hades(Pluto): King of the underworld God of the
Dead and Riches.
Hades with Cerberus
20. Pomegranates: 石榴
21.
22. Oracle: 甲骨文
23. Test on “Twelve Olympians”(wikipedia)
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