西洋文學概論~上課筆記(week1)

＊The face that launched a thousand ships –                                                           
Was this the face that launch'd a thousand ships 

And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?

Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss.

                            --The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus, Christopher Marlowe

       

      

see Helen of Troy(movie)

Greek

1.          Atreus (1)Agamemnon (Mycenae)＋Clytemnestra

           (2)Menelaus (king of Sparta)＋Helen

2.           Peleus＋Thetis－＞Achilles(River Styx, Achilles’Heel)

※  Achilles’Heel 致命傷 

ex: Being too straight-forward and outspoken could become

      one's Achilles' heel.

3.          Leda and the Swan(Zeus)－＞Helen,Clytemnestra,Castor and Pollux

                      v.s

Trojan (Troy)

1.        Priam＋Hecuba－＞(1)Hector＋Andromache

                     (2)Cassandra (prophetess)＋Apollo (oracle at Delphi)

                     (3)Paris＋Helen

l         orientation

   - Orientation is basic information or training that is given to people starting a

    new job , school, or course.  

    ex: They give their new employees a day or two of perfunctory orientation.

  1. ver- truth

       ex: veracity  / verdict  / verify

  2. bene-good

ex: benefit  / beneficent  / benevolent       

  3.mal-bad

     ex:malfunction /  malformation  / malign

  4.mor-death

     ex: mortician   / morgue
  5.psy-mind,spirit
     ex: psychiatric/psychedelic

◎    cupid=Eros

cupid and psyche

psyche ( butterfly)         －──＞

   

                            lyre--->