What is that? What is that for? Why
should we care?
The objective of
this course is to make us know how to read,
understand, and appreciative Western Literature.
What
is literature?
It is imagination,
emotional, beautiful, and intellectual. Literature gives us spiritual about
humanity and psychological relief.
Reminder
of the class
Preview before the
class
Every class should
write down the notes and it should be handed in before Christmas
Before the
midterm, we talk about Epic poetry. After the midterm, we talk about Drama and
Bible.
Text
book of the course
Bible
It is the
collection of texts sacred in Judaism and Christianity. It is an example of a collection
of scriptures written at different times by different authors in different
locations. Jews and Christians consider the Bible to be a product of divine inspiration
or an authoritative record of the relationship between God and humans.
The
Hebrew Bible: Biblical , Classical, and Literary
The
Christian Bible
Origins of Lesbo
Sappho of Lesbo is the first lesbian of the
world. Also, she is a Greek lyric poet.
The Alexandrians
included her in the list of nine lyric poems.
The bulk of her
poetry, which was well known and greatly admired through much of antiquity, has
been lost.
However, her
immense reputation has endured through surviving fragments.
Lesbian: is a female homosexual, a female who
experiences romantic love or sexual attraction to other females.
Homer
He is best known
as the author of the Iliad and Odyssey. He was believed by the ancient
Greeks to have been the first and greatest of the epic poets.
Aphrodite
She is the Greek
goddess of love, beauty, pleasure, and procreation. Apart from her natural
beauty, she also had a magical girdle that compelled everyone to desire her.
Aphrodisiac: It increases sexual desire.
Vocabulary
ori:
beginning, first
eg.orientation, oriental, original
allusion: a
passing or causal reference, an identical mention of something
biblical: in
accord with bible
Additional Supplement
Roman
Numbers
Use of Roman
numerals continued after the decline of the Roman Empire.
The numbers 1 to
10 can be expressed in Roman as follows:
I II III IV V VI
VII VIII IX X
Consumers
electronics
Origins of Western Literature
Western Literature
is from ancient Greek, ancient Roman, and Hebrew cultures. However, in 19
century, English became an important language in the world.
The oldest British literature is the
form of epic poetry as well- Beowulf
Beowulf: is an Old English epic poem consisting of
3182 alliterative poems. It is the oldest surviving long poem in Old English
and is commonly cited as one of the most important works of Old English
Literature.
Film: Helen of Troy
Introduction:
Helen of Troy is based upon Homer’s story of the Trojan War., as recounted in
the epic poem, Iliad. The film is placed in the early classical period rather
than the correct late Bronze age. The Greeks are shown with Iron Age classical
hoplite dress and arms.
