西概Note week16

More information

→ http://www.diffen.com/difference/Catholic_vs_Protestant

Ø   Protestant vs Catholic (新教 vs 天主教)

Catholicism and Protestantism are two denominations of Christianity

   Protestant → a member of a group of Christian churches that separated from the Roman Catholic Church in the 16th century   

   protestant → 抗議者

l   WASP

= White Anglo-Saxon Protestant

White Anglo-Saxon Protestant (WASP) is an informal, sometimes disparaging term for a group of high-status and influential White Americans of English Protestant ancestry. It describes a group whose family wealth, education, status, and elite connections allow them a degree of opportunity held by few others.

l   Stuart little 一家之鼠

Ø   King James bible (親定版聖經)

The King James Version (KJV), also known as the Authorized Version (AV) or King James Bible (KJB), is an English translation of the Christian Bible for the Church of England that begun in 1604 and completed in 1611.

The first was the Great Bible commissioned in the reign of King Henry VIII (1535), a new English version was conceived in response to the perceived problems of the earlier translations as detected by the Puritans, a faction within the Church of England. The translation is widely considered a towering achievement in English literature, as both beautiful and scholarly.

Ø  Orpheus

Orpheus was a legendary Thracian musician, poet, and prophet in ancient Greek religion and myth. The major stories about him are centered on his ability to charm all living things and even stones with his music, his attempt to retrieve his wife, Eurydice, from the underworld, and his death at the hands of those who could not hear his divine music. As an archetype of the inspired singer, Orpheus is one of the most significant figures in the reception of classical mythology in Western culture, portrayed or alluded to in countless forms of art and popular culture including poetry, film, opera, music, and painting.

For the Greeks, Orpheus was a founder and prophet of the so-called "Orphic" mysteries. He was credited with the composition of the Orphic Hymns, a collection of which survives. Shrines containing purported relics of Orpheus were regarded as oracles. Some ancient Greek sources note Orpheus' Thracian origins.

Ø  Eurydice

In Greek mythology, Eurydice was an oak nymph or one of the daughters of Apollo (the god of music, who also drove the sun chariot, 'adopting' the power as god of the Sun from the primordial god Helios). She was the wife of Orpheus, who tried to bring her back from the dead with his enchanting music.

Ø   去冥府有回來的hero (Charon)

1.          Orpheus

2.          Aeneas

3.          Odysseus