a. Ancient literature include Greek and Latin (Roman) literature. Also, most authors of Roman literature plagiarized the resource of Greek literature.
b. Tetragrammaton is Phoenician alphabet and it's easy-to-learn.
* Pinyin System is the official phonetic system for transcribing the Mandarin pronunciations of Chinese characters into the Latin alphabet in the People's Republic of China.
* Chinese character is originated from the character on our keyboard.
Phoenician alphabet
c. Hebrew people like to use "I" or "J" as the prefix of a name and most of time, it's hard to recognize the usage of this two letters. eg. Joseph, Jesus, and Jacob.
d. Egyptian and hieroglyphic-- were a formal writing system used by the ancient Egyptians that combined logographic and alphabetic elements. 
Egyptian hieroglyphic
e. Old Testament was divided into 39 books and New Testament include 27 books.
* tips for memorizing-3 times 9 is 27
f. King James Version Bible-- King James the first edited the first English version of Bible called King James Version.
g. Epic of Gilgamesh-- The first epic poetry shows on wedge clay. And there are some topics which is the same as other literature such as Classic of Mountains and Seas from China. eg. the flood and snake
h. Augustine of Hippo is a sort of combination by three cultures. Among his most important works are City of God and Confessions, which continue to be read widely today. When Hippo was young, he always did some bad things; however, he converted himself to a Christian.
Saint Augustine
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B. English Prefix, Root, and Suffix (v)
a. monogamy-- "mono" stands for one and "gamy" stands for matching. eg. autogamy
*autonomy-- "nomy" stands for name.
b. bicycle-- "bi" stands for two. eg. bigamy
c. triangle-- "tri" stands for three.
d. quarter-- "qua" stands for four.
* The platform in Harry Potter is called platform nine and three quarters.
Scene in Harry Potter movie
e. pentagon-- "pent" stands for five and "gon" stands for size and angle.
f. octopus-- "oct" stands for eight (not ten). The reason that so called "August" is to remember Augustus.
Augustus
g. November-- "nov" stands for eleven.
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Practice 49-- XL IX ; 99-- XC IX ; 44-- XL IV
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D. Homer
a. Homer is considered the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, and is revered as the greatest of Greek epic poets. These epics lie at the beginning of the Western canon of literature, and have had an enormous influence on the history of literature.
b. The poems in Homer are lengthy and most of them are narrative poems. (epic poetry)
c. Homer was a bard and recorded all these stories.
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D. Notes on Trojan War (v)
a. Greek
(a) Atreus:
(1) Agamemnon (Mycenae)+ Clytemnestra-- Iphigeneia, Electra, Orestes
(2) Menelaus (king) ( Sparta ) + Helen
(b) Peleus (human)+ Thetis (Goddess)--[Achilles (River Styx , Achilles' Heel) + Patroclus]
(c) Odysseus (Nausicaa, Circe, Calypso) + Penelope-- Telemachus (Ithaca, Poseidon)
(d) Leda (mythology), Leda and the Swan (Zeus)-- Helen, Clytemnestra, Castor and Pollux
(e) Persephone, Demeter, Ceres (mythology), Hades, pomegranate seeds
b. Trojan (Troy) -- Outside of the Trojan wall is called Ilium.
(1) Agamemnon (Mycenae)+ Clytemnestra-- Iphigeneia, Electra, Orestes
(2) Menelaus (king) ( Sparta ) + Helen
(b) Peleus (human)+ Thetis (Goddess)--[Achilles (River Styx , Achilles' Heel) + Patroclus]
(c) Odysseus (Nausicaa, Circe, Calypso) + Penelope-- Telemachus (Ithaca, Poseidon)
(d) Leda (mythology), Leda and the Swan (Zeus)-- Helen, Clytemnestra, Castor and Pollux
(e) Persephone, Demeter, Ceres (mythology), Hades, pomegranate seeds
b. Trojan (Troy) -- Outside of the Trojan wall is called Ilium.
(a) Priam + Hecuba
(1) Hector+ Andromache
(2) Cassandra (prophetess) + Apollo (oracle at Delphi )
(3) Paris + Helen
(b) Aeneas (Dido)
(c) God’s will (the god has spoken), Moirae, (The Fates, destiny), Catharsis (Hamartia)
(d) Prophets with disability (Tiresias)
(e) Judgement of Paris: Athena (glory in the war), Aphrodite (Helen), Hera (wealth)
(f) Eris (mythology) at the wedding of Achilles’ parents -- Goddess of discourt who gave the golden apple and intrigued the Trojan War.
(1) Hector+ Andromache
(2) Cassandra (prophetess) + Apollo (oracle at Delphi )
(3) Paris + Helen
(b) Aeneas (Dido)
(c) God’s will (the god has spoken), Moirae, (The Fates, destiny), Catharsis (Hamartia)
(d) Prophets with disability (Tiresias)
(e) Judgement of Paris: Athena (glory in the war), Aphrodite (Helen), Hera (wealth)
(f) Eris (mythology) at the wedding of Achilles’ parents -- Goddess of discourt who gave the golden apple and intrigued the Trojan War.
*At that time, their country is composed of lots of polises.
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E. Notes on Helen of Troy (v)
a. The face that launched a thousand ship
b. The proverb up there is quoted from Christopher Marlowe who was an English dramatist, poet and translator of the Elizabethan era. Marlowe was the foremost Elizabethan tragedian of his day.
Christopher Marlowe
*Song time-- If (Bread)
If a picture paints a thousand words,
Then why can't I paint you?
The words will never show the you I've come to know.
If a face could launch a thousand ships,
Then where am I to go?
There's no one home but you,
You're all that's left me too.
And when my love for life is running dry,
You come and pour yourself on me.
If a man could be two places at one time,
I'd be with you.
Tomorrow and today, beside you all the way.
If the world should stop revolving spinning slowly down to die,
I'd spend the end with you.
And when the world was through,
Then one by one the stars would all go out,
Then you and I would simply fly away
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F. Vocabulary
a. god (everyone's god), God (Christian's God), and deity (other 神祇)
* Western people only care for themselves, but Roman people are more generous.
b. Voiceless letter-- lamb ; psych ; Aeneid ; Science ("c" pronounces [s] )c. Mediterranean-- "Medi" stands for middle and "terrane" stands for land
d. immortal-- "mor" or "mort" represents the meaning of death. eg. mortician, morgue, mortify, and morgage
e. clash-- is an onometopoeia
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