課程名稱︰西洋文學概論一
課程性質︰外文大一必修
課程教師︰陳玲華
開課學院：文學院
開課系所︰外國語文學系
考試日期（年月日）︰96.12.04
考試時限（分鐘）：90
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試題 :
I. Identify the speaker of each passage quoted from the Iliad. A name list is
for your reference: Achilles, Agamemnon, Odysseus, Phoenix, Hector, Hermes,
Andromache, Helen, Hecuba, Patroclus, Priam, Calcas, Zeus, Hera, Hephaestus
Athena, Thetis. (30%)
1. Mother, don't offer me any wine
It would drain the power out of my limbs.
I have too much reverence to pour a libation
With unwashed hands to Zeus almighty,
2. Father Zeus, if I have ever helped you
In word or deed among the immortals,
Grant me this prayer:
Honor my son, doomed to die young
3. But I would escort you all the way to Argos,
With attentive care, by ship or on foot
And no one would fight you for scorn of your escort.
4. Many a time you wet the tunic on my chest,
Burning up wine when you were colicky
I went through a lot for you, because I knew
The gods would never let me have a child.
5. Mother, who was queen in the forests of Plakos,
He took back as a prisoner, with all her possessions.
Then released her for a fortune in ransom.
She died in our house, shot by Artemis' arrows.
6. It was Fate, and Leto's son, who killed me.
Of men, Euphorbus. You came in third at best.
7. I've raided twelve cities with our ships
And eleven on foot in the fertile Troad,
Looted them all, brought back heirlooms
By the ton, and handed it all over
To Atreus' son,
8. And Zeus finally destroys me in my old age,
After I have seen all the horrors of war－
My sons butchered, my daughter dragged off,
Raped, bedchambers plundered, infants
Dashed to the ground in this terrible war,
9. Now let's get tough and fight and not spare
Any spears. Either Achilles kills us both
And drags our blood-soaked gear to the ships,
Or he goes down with your spear in his guts.
10. You damn soothsayer!
You've never given me a good omen yet.
You take some kind of perverse pleasure in Prophesying
Doom, don't you? Not a single favorable omen ever!
II. Choose the appropriate answer for each blank. (21%)
1. Homer tended to link certain adjectives to his characters, which are
called "Homeric ＿＿": swift-footed Achilles; rosy-fingered dawn;
Odysseus, sacker of cities. (a) epithets (b) similes (c) apparatus
2. Hade's wife was ＿＿ whom he carried away from the earth and made Queen
of the Lower World. (a) Persephone (b) Demeter (c) Nereid (d) Hestia
3. Triton was the trumpeter of the Sea. His trumpet was a great ＿＿.
(a) horn (b) shell (c) Saxophone (d) lyre
4. ＿＿ was the Goddess of the Rainbow and a messenger of Zeus in the Iliad.
(a) Iris (b) Clio (c) Eros (d) Aglaia
5. Seven different cities put forward claims to be the birthplace of Homer.
They are all in what the Greeks called Ionia, the western coast of ＿＿,
which was heavily setteled by Greek colonists.
(a) Asia Minor (b) Sicily (c) Italy (d) Greece
6. Zeus heard Priam's prayer and sent an ＿＿, the surest omen in the sky.
(a) eagle (b) vulture (c) sparrow (d) kite
7. At the wedding of King Peleus and the sea nymth Thetis, the goddess of
＿＿, Eris, threw into the banqueting hall a golden apple marked For
the Fairest. (a) Discord (b) Quarrel (c) Wrath
III. Answer TWO of the following essay questions. (49%)
1. Define "epic" as aliterary genre. Illustrate the epic conventions in the
Iliad.
2. Recount the tragedy of the Trojan War from the perspective of Andromache.
3. Cite instances of Agamemnon's predicaments and concessions to his
generals during the Trojan War.
4. How does Homer present his vision of war and peace on Achilles's shield
forged by Hephaestus.
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