Western Literature(Week1)

• Syllabus

• Intro to American Literature

 

 

•  Sappho: a Greek lyric poet

A Greek lyric poet, born on the island of Lesbos. The Alexandrians included her in the list of nine lyric poets. She was born sometime between 630 and 612 BCE, and it is said that she died around 570 BCE, but little is known for certain about her life. 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.

 

The origin of Lesbian

A lesbian is a female homosexual; a female who experiences romantic love or sexual attraction to other females.The term lesbian is also used with regard to sexual identity or sexual behavior, regardless of sexual orientation, or as an adjective to characterize or associate nouns with female homosexuality or same-sex attraction.  

• Hellenism 2004

• Roman symbol

1--->I 

 5--->V

10--->X

50--->L

100--->C

500--->D

1000--->M

遇到 4,9(-)

Ex.4--->IV 

(4=5-1)

9--->IX

14--->XIV

90--->XC 

(90=100-10)

2015--->MMXV

• Homework:  Helen of Troy

 In Greek myths, Helen was considered the most beautiful woman in the world. By marriage she was Queen of Laconia, a province within Homeric Greece, the wife of King Menelaus. Her abduction by Paris, Prince of Troy, brought about the Trojan War. Elements of her putative biography come from classical authors such as Aristophanes, Cicero, Euripides and Homer (both The Iliad and The Odyssey).