西概Note week7

l   Xenia

This article is about the ancient Greek concept of hospitality.

The generosity and courtesy shown to those who are far from home or associates of the person bestowing guest-friendship. The rituals of hospitality created and expressed a reciprocal relationship between guest and host expressed in both material benefits (such as the giving of gifts to each party) as well as non-material ones (such as protection, shelter, favors, or certain normative rights).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenia_(Greek)

Xerox  /ˈzɪərɒks/  copy: 複印

Carbon copy: (c.c) 副本(usually give to the person whose position is lower than you)

Q-tips；tulip – 鬱金香

tampon – 衛生棉條；Kotex (靠得住衛生棉)

l   Ally – 同盟國；軸心國

e.g. Athena is Odysseus’ greatest ally.

 

l   Hermes: the god of message

Hermes is a god of transitions and boundaries. He is quick and cunning, and moves freely between the worlds of the mortal and divine, as an emissary and messenger of the god

l   Iris: the goddess of message

 In Greek mythology, Iris is the personification of the rainbow and messenger of the gods. She is also known as one of the goddesses of the sea and the sky. Iris links the gods to humanity. She travels with the speed of wind from one end of the world to the other,[ and into the depths of the sea and the underworld.

• lDactylic

A dactyl is a foot in poetic meter. In quantitative verse, often used in Greek or Latin, a dactyl is a long syllable followed by two short syllables, as determined by syllable weight. In accentual verse, often used in English, it is a stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables—the opposite is the anapaest (two unstressed followed by a stressed syllable).

A useful mnemonic for remembering this long-short-short pattern is to consider the relative lengths of the three bones of a human finger: beginning at the knuckle, it is one long bone followed by two shorter ones (hence the name dactyl).

An example of dactylic meter is the first line of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem Evangeline, which is in dactylic hexameter:

This is the / forest prim- / eval. The / murmuring / pines and the / hem locks,

The first five feet of the line are dactyls; the sixth a trochee.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dactyl_(poetry)

Vocabulary:

Mourn (v.) to feel extremely sad because someone has died and to express this in public.

*mourn for

Lament   (v.) to show publicly that you feel sad or disappointed about something

Elegy (n.) a poem or other piece of writing expressing sadness, usually about someone’s death

Ransom (n.) the amount of money that someone wants to be paid before they will let a person who they are keeping prisoner go free

                (v.) to pay an amount of money to someone in order to make them let someone they are keeping as a prisoner go free.