week2 Homer The Iliad (western literature )

1. Apollo and his lyre- Apollo has been variously recognized as a god of music, truth and prophecy, healing, the sun and light, plague, poetry, and more. Apollo is the son of Zeus and Leto, and has a twin sister, the chaste huntress Artemis. As the patron of Delphi (Pythian Apollo), Apollo was an oracular god—the prophetic deity of the Delphic Oracle.


2.Athena and her owl(goddess of hunting)
She born from Zeus forehead


3.Atreus( father of Agamemnon)and Oedipus( king of Odedipus)
the two are tragedy of family

The house of Atreus in Mycenae

4. Greek Theater



5. Asclepius and the snake(god of medicine)-was a god of medicine in ancient Greek religion and mythology. Asclepius represents the healing aspect of the medical art,He was one of Apollo's sons, sharing with Apollo the epithet Paean,The rod of Asclepius, a snake-entwined staff, remains a symbol of medicine today. Those physicians and attendants who served this god were known as the Therapeutic of Asclepius.


6. Poseidon( god of sea and water)- is one of the twelve Olympian deities of the pantheon in Greek mythology. His main domain is the ocean, and he is called the "God of the Sea".


7. Cronus learned from Gaia and Uranus that he was destined to be overcome by his own sons, just as he had overthrown his father. when his sons born by Rhea, he swallowed them all as soon as they were born to prevent the prediction. When the sixth child, Zeus, was born Rhea secretly gave birth to Zeus in Crete, and handed Cronus a stone wrapped in swaddling clothes, also known as the Omphalos Stone, which he swallowed, thinking that it was his son.



Vocabulary

1. Dia- prefix means "completely","pass through"
Example Dialect( the form of language that spoken in different region)                
               Diagnosis( the process of examination of disease condition)

2. De- prefix means "separation ","negation"," reversal"
Example Departure( an act of leaving a place) 
               Depreciate( become less valuable over a period of time)

3 poly- root means "much", "many"
ex. polygamy( have more than one husband or wife in one time) 
       monopoly( completely control of trade)