a. Odyssey describes a traveler's experience and it's the earliest original type of wanderers.
b. How did Homer tell the story of Iliad? He used fate and dramatic ways to tell the story, also there are some tragic elements hidden in the story.
c. invocation-- It is to call on a god or goddess. When people are invocating, they may ask for something and some help from gods or just worship them.Take the plots in ancient epics for instance, people in Sappho’s epics always called on Aphrodite, and people in Homer’s epics used to call on Apollo.
d. Homeric epithet-- Homer uses adjective tags/ phrases to indicate the characters and polish the people or places in his poems. For example, the rocky Ithaca and the swift-footed Achilles.
e. in media res-- It is a literary and artistic narrative technique which a story relates to start from the mid-point. It allows a story open with a dramatic action rather than the exposition setting up the characters and situation.
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B. Video of Ancient Greek
a. The golden age of Greece was in 5 century BC.
Use four keywords to define this period-- human, characteristic, wrathful, and vindictive.
b. Poseidon-- He's the death of the earth (quake), god of the sea
c. Zeus-- He's the rule of the world and the god of itself, or we can say he's almighty.
d. Apollo-- He represents rationality so he rules knowledge, healing, and sports. His temple is in Delphi and there are thousands of pilgrim going there for getting prophet oracles every year.
Apollo's temple at Delphie. Dionysus-- He's the god of play. He is always related to some words which was refer to party such as orgy, dithyramb theatre, religious festival, wine (vine), and fertility. Also, due to his identity, he not only rule comedy, but also tragedy (tragic drama).
* Dionysus is the son of Semele and Zeus. His mother was been chased to die and burnt to a fireball. Therefore, Zeus picked up the ashes of Semele and raised the ashes in his thigh. This is how the Dionysus born and after he grew up, Zeus put him in the mortal world to teach human agriculture.
* Famous tragedy-- Medea (The story of Medea, Jason, and "the Golden Fleece")
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Semele
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C. Book Discussion (P.181-189, P.276-283, P.420-422)
a. Odyssey is the only story that mentions Trojan War and Trojan Horse. This story is about laws and habitability. (P.183)
b. Odysseus was famous for his cunning and he's also extremely proud of himself. He made Polyphemus, the son of Poseidon, blind and killed him so he was exiled and roamed on the sea for twenty years. (P.186)
c. "He and I both are on the door step." said Priam. -- "He" means Achilles' father Peleus. (P.283)
d. Odysseus tried to ask Tiresias in Hades once because he wanted to know when he could go home. (P.420-422)
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D. Vocabulary
a. wrathful-- extreme anger
b. vindictive-- having or showing a wish to harm someone because you think that they harmed you
c. bard-- a poet who tells story place by place
d. hexameter-- "Hex" stands for six. e.g. hexagon
e. anachronistic--a person, thing, or idea that exists out of its time in history
"Ana" stands for no. "Chroni" stands for chronology.
* chronology-- the order in which a series of events happened, or a list or explanation of these events in the order in which they happened (編年史)
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