西概Note week4

Ø   English is the only you employ to access information.

For example, we use it to study the reflection of Literature.

Ø   Continue “The Iliad”

          The Iliad is an ancient Greek epic poem in dactylic hexameter, traditionally attributed to Homer. Set during the Trojan War, the ten-year siege of the city of Troy (Ilium) by a coalition of Greek states, it tells of the battles and events during the weeks of a quarrel between King Agamemnon and the warrior Achilles.

The Iliad is paired with something of a sequel, the Odyssey, also attributed to Homer. Along with the Odyssey, the Iliad is among the oldest extant works of Western literature, and its written version is usually dated to around the eighth century BC. It is written in Homeric Greek, a literary amalgam of Ionic Greek and other dialects.

Ø   How to fight in Troy? One-on-one combat

Ø   Priam：

In Greek mythology, Priam was the king of Troy during the Trojan War.

Priam had many wives; his first was Arisbe, who had given birth to his son Aesacus, who met his death before the Trojan War. Priam later divorced her in favor of Hecuba, daughter of the Phrygian king Dymas. By his various wives and concubines Priam was the father of fifty sons and many daughters. Hector was Priam's eldest son by Hecuba, and heir to the Trojan throne. Paris, another son, was the cause of the Trojan War. Other children of Priam and Hecuba include the prophetic Helenus and Cassandra; eldest daughter Ilione; Deiphobus; Troilus; Polites; Creusa, wife of Aeneas; Laodice, wife of Helicaon; Polyxena, who was slaughtered on the grave of Achilles; and Polydorus, his youngest son.

Ø   In medias res

A tale beginning in medias res opens in the midst of action. Often, exposition is bypassed and filled in gradually, either through dialogue, flashbacks or description of past events.

Works that employ in medias res often, though not always, subsequently use flashback and nonlinear narrative for exposition of earlier events in order to fill in the backstory. 

Ø   Hephaestus ：天國唯一鐵匠

The Greek god of blacksmiths, craftsmen, artisans, sculptors, metals, metallurgy, fire and volcanoes. Hephaestus' Roman equivalent is Vulcan. In Greek mythology, Hephaestus was the son of Zeus and Hera, the king and queen of the gods. In another version, he was rejected by his mother because of his deformity and thrown out of heaven and down to earth.

Ø   Syllable

1.          pyr- hot; fire

2.          pyre 葬禮

3.          initial →happening at the beginning of a process, or when you first see or hear about something

4.          outrageous → very shocking or unreasonable

5.          enchanted → affected by special magic powers

6.          vulnerable → someone who is vulnerable is weak or easy to hurt physically or mentally