西洋文學概論～上課筆記(week 11)

u  predator (n.)

    - A predator is an animal that kills and eats other animals. 

    - People sometimes refer to predatory people or organizations as predators. 

    prey (n.)

    -A creature's prey is the creature that it hunts and eats in order to live. 

u  The chorus-ideal spectator

    Artemis: was one of the most widely venerated of the Ancient Greek deities. 

    (Diana)

u  ab- something negative

    ex: abduct / abstract/ abandon

    pri-mainly

    ex: primary / privilege/ priority

u  music: Hark the Herald Angels sing

 

       à audience

         orchestra

   stage

          

    altar

    - An altar is a holy table in a church or temple. 

u  P506  

     know… by heart

     - to know something perfectly; to have memorized something perfectly. 

     ex: He's my favorite poet. I know several of his poems by heart.

     P507   That woman-she maneuvers like a man. àClytaemnestra

     P508   vultures (n.)

               -A vulture is a large bird, which lives in hot countries and eats the flesh of dead 

              animals. 

Lesbian(adj.)

Lesbos

Lyre

Lyrics 抒情詩、歌詞

Eros

Spangled mind

apology(n.)

apologize(v.)

Aeschylus

Sophocles

Euripides    Medea->外國女人，施魔法, Jason

Oedipus 戀母

亞歷山大帝王學

I see, I come, I conquer.

Show some hubris

Hephaistion

• Aristotle: Although an inferior race, the Persians control at least four fifths of the known world. But, is it possible that the source of Egypt's mighty river Nile could rise in these distant mountains of the outer Earth? If so, an experienced navigator could find his way here, by this river, east, down into the great plains of India, out into the eastern ocean and end of the world, and by this route, up the Nile, back to Egypt, into the Middle Sea and home to Greece.

aegisthus

choir

orchestra chorus