課程名稱︰西洋文學概論一
課程性質︰外文系必帶/與西概二、歐洲文學四選三
課程教師︰姜台芬
開課學院：文學院
開課系所︰外國語文學系
考試日期（年月日）︰103.1.9
考試時限（分鐘）：90分鐘
是否需發放獎勵金：是
試題 :
[範圍：Odyssey (esp. Book 1,4-12,23,24)]
I. Identify the speakers of the following passages: 40%
1. Ah how shameless -- the way these mortals blame the gods.
From us alone, they say all their miseries, yes,
but they themselves, with their own reckless ways,
compound their pains beyond their proper share.
2. My royal king Menelaus -- welcome guests here,
sons of the great as well! Zeus can present us
times of joy and times of grief in turn:
all lies in his power.
So come, let's sit back in the palace now,
dine and warm our hearts with the old stories.
3. The gods, it was the gods who sent us sorrow --
they grudged us both a life in each other's arms
from the heady zest of youth to the stoop of old age.
But don't fault me, angry with me now because I failed
at the first glimpse, to greet you ...
4. Poor fools, where are we running now?
Why are we tempting fate? --
why stumble blindly down to Circe's halls?
... just as the Cyclops trapped our comrades in his lair
with hotheaded Odysseus right beside them all --
thanks to this man's rashness they died too!
5. Aegisthus hatched my doom and my destruction,
he killed me, he with my own accursed wife ...
he invited me to his palace,
sat me down to the feast
then cut me down ...
6. Strangers! ...
Where did you sail from, over the running sea-lanes?
Out on a trading spree or roving the waves like pirates,
sea-wolves raiding at will, who risk their lives to plunder other men?
7. ...may Zeus the Thunderer, Hera's husband, grant it so --
that I travel home and see the dawn of my return.
Even at home I'll pray to you as a deathless goddess
all my days to come. You saved my life, dear girl.
*(a. the speaker is _______;
b. to _______ is the speaker addressing his/her words)
8. Tell me, why do you weep and grieve so sorely when you hear
the fate of the Argives, hear the fall of Troy?
That is the gods' work, spinning threads of death
through the lives of mortal men,
and all to make a song for those to come ...
9. My son, my son, the unluckiest man alive!
This is no deception sent by Queen Persephone,
this is just the way of mortals where we die.
Sinews no longer bind the flesh and bones together ...
*(a. the speaker is _______;
b. Persephone is ________ )
10. Hell-bent yet again ot battle and feats of arms?
Can't you bow to the deathless gods themselves?
Scylla's no mortal, she's an immortal devastation,
terrible, savage, wild, no fighting to her, no defense ...
11. But oncce you have killed those suitors in your halls --
by stealth or open fight with slashing bronze --
go force once more, you must ...
carry your well-planed oar until you come
to a race people who know nothing of the sea ...
II. Do you agree with the speaker of passage I.1, regarding the reason for
Odysseus' being detained from retruning home? Why?
III. I.2 and I.3 express the ancient Greeks' view of the gods' doings in human
existence. What is this view? How does it decide the ancient Greek view of
human life?
IV. The speaker of I.6 gives his criticism of Odysseus' way of life. Do you
agree with him? How does the speaker's way of life differ form Odysseus'?
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