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Western Literature

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Week3

• Nereid Thetis ( /ˈθɛtɪs/ ) + Peleus ( /ˈpiːliəs/ ) = Achilles
  
• Achilles’ heel : a small problem or weakness in a person or system that can result in failure. A deadly weakness.

Story: When Achilles was born; in order to make him immortal and invulnerable, Peleus sank her son Achilles in the river Styx.

• The three most important characteristics in the movie: Athena、Venus、Hera

• Venus (also Aphrodite’s /æfrəˈdaɪti/): The Greek goddess of love, beauty, pleasure, and procreation. Her Roman equivalent is the goddess Venus. She is identified with the planet Venus.

• Cere fruit 囍瑞果汁

Q: How many pomegranate seeds did Persephone (daughter of Ceres) eat?

A: six.

• 水金地火木土天海冥Twelve gods
  

Planets in astrology have a meaning different from the modern astronomical understanding of what a planet is. Before the age of telescopes, the night sky was thought to consist of two very similar components: fixed stars, which remained motionless in relation to each other, and "wandering stars" (Ancient Greek: ἀστέρες πλανῆται asteres planetai), which moved relative to the fixed stars over the course of the year.

• Adjective+ gods’ names

Eg: Homeric Apollo

  Swift footed Achilles

*vocabulary

• Styx /stɪks/ 冥河

• Heifer 母牛    Bull 公牛     Cup 眾動物的幼犬

• Metamorphose /ˌmet.əˈmɔː.fəʊz/ : to change into a completely different form or type.脫胎換骨

• Refugee /ˌref.jʊˈdʒi / : a person who has escaped from their own country for political, religious, or economicreasons or because of a war.難民

• pomegranate  /ˈpɒm.ɪˌɡræn.ɪt/ : 石榴

• pomelo: 柚子

• destiny v.s fate v.s destination

Destiny: something you can control

Destination: the final place 絕命終結站

Fate: something beyond your control

Fatal woman: Helen、Salome莎勒美

• Invoke (v): to call

• Ignite: to get started

*prefix

• Nymph---

Nymph: A woman who is walking along the river

Nymphomaniac (in short, nympho) /ˌnɪm.fəˈmeɪ.ni.æk/ : a woman who likes to have sex very often, especially with a lot of different men.

• pyr---

Pyre--- /paɪə/: a pile or heap of wood

Pyre usually appears on funerals.

Pyromaniac /ˌpaɪ.rəˈmeɪ.ni.æk/ : a person who have a compulsion to set things on fire.縱火狂

Pyromania: a mental illness in which a person feels a strong wish to set fires.縱火慾

• Ab---negative、away from、off、opposite to

Aboriginal, abstract, abolish, abdicate, abandon