2.the Odyssey
The Odyssey is the first and perhaps the greatest adventure story of all time. According to Rouse, this is the best story ever written , and it has been a favorite for three thousand years. Until lately it has been in the mind of every educated man; “and it is a thousand pities the new world should grow without it.” “Indeed it enchanted every man, lettered or unlettered and every boy who hears it.”
Odyssey tells a simple and familiar story: the return of a hero Odysseus , a veteran of Trojan War. After Trojan War, he was trying to go back home, but was detained by the God Poseidon. He spent ten trial-filled years wondering in exotic lands. His adventurous stories have fascinated and inspired many readers.
阅读故事 Heroes and gods and monsters in Greek mythology Chapter VIII， IX (资料库 )
The Voyages of Odysseus 阅读问题：
What happened when they saw the lotus ?
Who had the control of the wind and why did he refuse to help Odysseus later ?
How did they run away from the Cyclops?---- one-dimensional giant
Why didn’t Odysseus become pigs ?
What did Odysseus do protect himself from the enchanting singing of the Sirens
How did Penelope protect herself from the suitors ?
Pirimage to the West
Temptations ( 《道德经》）
Story of going back home
Exodus Vs Odyssey
Lust of eyes , cravings (a very strong and eager desire) , What I have done and what I have (pride)
Louise Glück (American Poet, 2020 Noble Prize winner for literature)
Meadowlands (1996), Glück’s first new work after The Wild Iris,takes its impetus from Greek and Roman mythology. The book uses the voices of Odysseus and Penelope to create “a kind of high-low rhetorical experiment in marriage studies,” according to Deborah Garrison in the New York Times Book Review. Garrison added that, through the “suburban banter” between the ancient wanderer and his wife, Meadowlands “captures the way that a marriage itself has a tone, a set of shared vocal grooves inseparable from the particular personalities involved and the partial truces they’ve made along the way.”
