Tina Tang的部落格

fall 墮落

I fell to the ground. 我跌倒了。

falls 瀑布

Eve 夏娃à悔恨

gene à begin

generator

genesis 發源

genealogy 血緣/ 家譜

Cain VS. Abel à第一起謀殺案(the first blood)

covenant 盟約 = agreement

Babel à scatter

Isaac à Abraham’s son

Joseph 的神奇彩衣(Dream coat)

Jason Donovan – Any Dream Will Do

Haggis (哈吉士) à Robert Burns愛吃(1/25生日à Burns Night)

Jacob à 12 children à Joseph (最小兒子) à Potiphor(Potifar) àinterpret the dreamsà famine 飢荒

40 磨難很長

Mount Sinai

Ten Commandments 摩西十誡

Sabbath 安息日

blasphemy 褻瀆神明

prohibitions against idolatry 禁止偶像崇拜

murder

theft

dishonesty

adultery

to worship only God

“Oh! My God! ” à不要講

17^th James I à King James Virgin

the three magi 東方三賢士

“Our father who art(are) in heaven hollowed by thy(the) name.”

Jason(Argo, Argonaut) à Medea à Golden Fleece àColchis

-nium à a limited area

museum

millennium

aquarium

star of David

monotheistic à stand for one

monotheistic à stands for God

diasporaà go through

diameter

dialect

diagram

circumcision 割禮

enlightenment 啟蒙

wide-opened 眼界大開

rib 肋骨

serpent 蛇

fig 無花果

Michelangelo 米開朗基羅

Sistine Chapel 西斯汀大教堂

raven 大烏鴉

crow 小烏鴉

bow tie 蝴蝶結

necktie 領帶

Babel 巴別塔

Babel 

abstain from… 避免

prodigal son 浪子

gospel 福音書

Judas flower

Last Supper 最後的晚餐

Golgotha 行刑場

panorama 全景

Basilica

Pietà 聖殤

John the Baptist 受洗者約翰

Virgin Mary 聖母瑪利亞

Francis of Assisi

Francis 方濟

The Gift of The Magi à頭髮、錶帶

What Child Is This à  song

enthrone 加冕

Genesis 創世紀

Exodus 出埃及記

Ishmael(母) – Ismail(子)

Isaac

Western Literature

genres

period

mimesis àa critical and philosophical terms that carries a wide range of meanings

imitation

representation

mimicry

imitation

receptivity

nonsensuous similarity

the act of resembling

the act of expression

the presentation of the self

catharsis 淨化作用

tragedy à a form of drama based on human suffering that invokes in its audience an accompanying catharsis or pleasure in the viewing.

Hamartia à hero’s “tragic flaw”

Hubris 傲慢/ 驕傲

fame 名聲

infamous 惡名昭彰的

cocky 自大的/ 驕傲的

-cide à killing somebody

homicide 謀殺同類

insecticide 殺蟲劑

suicide 自殺

pa- à stands for father

patricide 弒父

paterfamilias 家長/ 一家之父

patriarch 長老/ 元老

riddle 謎語

Baleraphone

Daedalus(father) à Icarus(son)

Labyrinth 魔王迷宮

Chorus 合唱團

rejoice 高興/ 欣喜/ 歡喜

  Sappho of Lesbos à lesbian (adj.) 女同性戀的

Cupid(Latin) = Eros(Greek)

the god of desire, erotic love, attraction and affection

the son of the love goddess Venus

the bow and arrow 

Cupid and Psyche

spangled有閃閃發光的小物件的

lure àattract or tempt吸引, 誘惑

passion( no retraint) ßà reason( retraint)

*hubris àexcess of prides

Alexander 帝王學

eagle (predator, pray) à war

the Chorus(Greek Tragedy) à the ideal spectator give

ab- ànegative

abnormal 不正常的

abduct 綁架

abuse 亂用

herald (n.) à leader of Chorus

pri-/ pre- à main, important

primacy

priest

precede

Tragedy(he-go-song) à a form of drama àsuffering,

Dionysus(Greek) = Bacchcus(Latin)

the god of the grape harvest, fertility, winemaking and wine

Prometheus

the creation of man from clay

gives fire to humanity

The immortal Prometheus was bound to a rock, where each day an eagle, the emblem of Zeus, was sent to feed on his liver, which would then grow back to be eaten again the next day.

metaphor à Aristotle

Nymphmania 色情狂/慕男狂

Slaughter 宰殺/屠宰

propaganda 政治文宣

Odysseus à the king of Ithaca

Poseidon(Greek) = Neptune(Latin)

earthquake god

the god of sea

trident 三叉戟

exile 放逐

Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief 

Dante 但丁

Boccaccio 薄伽丘

Divina Commedia 《神曲》

inferno = hail 地獄

purgtorio = purgatory 煉獄

parodiso = paradise 天堂

Dan Brown   Inferno

 mentor 良師益友

bard 吟遊詩人

lyre 七弦琴

lyric 歌詞

the red-haired king à Menelaus

seer 先知

shade 鬼魂

Thebe 底比斯

Theban底比斯的

simile 明喩

metaphor 暗喻

“My Love(Luve) is Like A Red, Red Rose” – Robert Burns

O my Luve's like a red, red rose
That's newly sprung in June;
O my Luve's like the melodie
That's sweetly play'd in tune.

As fair art thou, my bonnie lass,
So deep in luve am I:
And I will luve thee still, my dear,
Till a' the seas gang dry:

Till a' the seas gang dry, my dear,
And the rocks melt wi' the sun:
I will luve thee still, my dear,
While the sands o' life shall run.

And fare thee weel, my only Luve
And fare thee weel, a while!
And I will come again, my Luve,
Tho' it were ten thousand mile.

lass à女人(蘇格蘭方言)

evocation à voc, vok à to call

evoke

vocal

invocation

River Styx à Charon  

pire 火葬

swine 野山豬

Homeric simile 荷馬式標籤 = epic simile

shaggy ram

pelican 鵜鶘à送子鳥

bard 詩人

scorn of escort = accompany

Mars(Latin) = Ares(Greek)

the god of war

an agricultural guardian

“March” à the month named for him

the lover of Aphrodite

Aphrodite(Greek) = Venus(Latin)

the Greek goddess of love, beauty, pleasure, and procreation

Zeus married her to Hephaestus

Hephaestus(Greek) = Vulcan(Latin)

the Greek god of blacksmiths

audio- à sound or hearing

audience

audium 劇院

audiodictionary

-ium, -eum à a limited area

stadium

aquarium 水族館

gymnasium = gym

millennium 千年期間

museum

dia- à go through

diameter 直徑

dialect

dialogue

-meter àmeasure

thermometer 溫度計

hydrometer 溼度計

kilometer

monotheistic àone

monologue 獨白

monocle 單眼鏡

monocrat 獨裁者

monotheistic àgod

Atheist 無神論者

Theist 有神論者

theocracy 神權政治

theocracy àgovernment or rule of 

democracy

technocracy 技術主義政治

bureaucracy 官僚政治

oligarchy 寡頭政治獨裁者àorder

Anarchy 無政府

monarch 君主/統治者

patriarch 家長/族長

oligarchy àfew, deficiency

oligo

oligopoly 獨佔(商業用語)

oligocythemia 血球過少

patronize 對…以恩人自居

disdained àsomething negative

disease

disadvantage

dislike

Octavius à eight

octopus

octachord 八弦琴

octangle 八角形

Mediterranean àin the middle of

medium

media

meddle

Mediterranean àthe earth

territory

terrain 地區/地形/範圍

terrace 階地/梯田

deficient àunder, down

descend

depress

deceive欺騙

Ceres(Latin) = Demeter(Greek)

Goddess of harvest

Presided the sanctity of marriage, the sacred law, and the cycle of life and death

Persephone(Latin) = Kore(Greek)

Queen of the underworld
Goddess of vegetation

Abducted by Hades(pomegranate)

genre /ˈdʒɑnrə/ à  literal category

Eris(Greek) à Discordia(Latin)  the Greek goddess of chaos, strife and discord. 
  

Zeus + Hera à  Ares, Hephaestus, Hebe, Eileithyia, Enyo, Eris

archetype à main, old, original

archaic

archaeological

archaeopteryx

Gladiator 神鬼戰士

an apple of Discord = the golden apple of Discord

à to the fairest à the wedding of Peleus and Thetis

   à Hera, Athena, Aphrodite à Trojan War

immortal (morg, mort, mor) à death

mortician

morgue

mortgage

contextual clue 

foreshadowing  埋伏筆

flashback  倒敘 / 追敘

lament 哀悼

Nymph

Hubris

Epic poetry = oral poetry = lengthy narrative poem

oral poetry = Vergil, Virgil = << The Aeneid >>

summary(n.) summarize(v.)

Genesis --> birth, beginning

gene

genetation

generator

in medias res = into the middle oh things

                         in the midst of things

assemble(v.) assembly(n.)

bard 吟遊詩人

Crisis = Cryseis 危機

Phoebus, Phoibos, Pallas 閃閃發亮

homeric epithet

Mediterranean = in the middle

Mediterranean = earth

Athena + Apolo (Minerva + Apolon) = wisdom

hubris 傲慢 = arrogant (型男飛行日誌)

Atreus家族 – 兄 Agamemnon (Mycenae)

             弟 Menelaus ( Sparta)

Asclepius = god of healing

Iris 彩虹之神

Zeus, Jupiter 宙斯

Hera, Juno 赫拉

Uranus 天王星

Socrates 蘇格拉底

Dionysus 酒神

Hermes 商業之神

Poseidon, Neptune 海神

Peleus + Thetis ­­--> Achilles

River Styz

Archilles’ Heel 致命傷

Patroclus

Moirae = fates = destiny

fair = beautiful

課程大綱:

      1.介紹課程

      Orientation: blog, genre, period, approaches

    2.Greek Mythology

    3.介紹文體

        Epic poetry 史詩

        Narrative poetry 敘事詩

        Lyric poetry 抒情詩

課程內容:

   Cupid and Psyche    Butterfly

       Cupid(羅馬) ---->  Eros(希臘)            golden arrow  ----->  love

                                                                       lead arrow  ----->  hate

                                                                       ? arrow  ------> solution

          Psyche  (psychology)

          Venus(羅馬)  ---->Aphrodite(希臘)   [͵æfrəˋdaɪtɪ]    VS.  Penelope   [pəˋnɛləpɪ]

    Helen of Troy  (2003)

          " Was this the face that launched a thousand ships,

             And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?

             Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss." 

benevolent ----> good           orientation ----> begin          

       benefit                                               original                                                        

      benedictite                                         oriental                                               

      benefactor                                         oriflamme                                          

predict -----> before           

        preadolescence                                

       preallotment                                   

       prevenient                                      

veritas (ver, vir 拉丁字根)----> truth

        virtual

       virtual

       version

 dictator ----> to tell or to say something

       dictionary

       dictation

       dictograph