課程名稱︰西洋文學概論
課程性質︰外文系必修
課程教師︰陳玲華
開課系所︰外文系
考試時間︰2006/6/23 8:10~9:10
是否需發放獎勵金：是
I. Identification (33%)
A. Identify the speaker of each passage.
1. But you have any reverence for Persuasion,
the majesty of Persuasion,
the spell of my voice that wou;d appease your fury--
Oh please stay...
2. The charge was made in public, wasn't it?
I put the prophet up to spreading lies?
3. Come to now, my dreaest,
Down from the car of war, but never set the foot
That stamped out Troy on earth again, my great one.
4. Good Greek earth, the soil of my fathers!
Ten years out, and a morning brings me back.
All hopes snapped but one--I am home at last.
Never dreamed I'd die in Greece, assigned
The narrow plot I love the best.
5. But not to assist some distant kinsman, no
for my own sake I'll rid us of this corruption.
Whoever killed the king may decide to kill me too,
With the same violent hand
6. And as for this marriage with your mother--
Have no fear. Many a man before you,
in his dream, has shared his mother's bed.
Take such things for shadows, nothing at all--
7. Mine is a long story
If I'd start with the many hosts I met,
I lived with, and I left them all unharmed.
Time refines all things that age with time.
B. Identify the pronoun or noun phrase underlined (顏色表示) in each passage.
8. Cassandra: I tell you, someone plots revenge.
A lion who lacks a lion's heart,
He sprawled at home in the royal lair
And set a trap for the lord on his return.
9. Shepherd: I pitied the little baby, master,
Hope he'd take him off to his own country,
Far away, but he saved him for this, this fate.
If you are the man he says you are, believe me,
You were born for pain.
10. the ghost of Clytaemnestra:
And after all my libations...how you lapped
the honey, the sober offerings poured to soothe you,
awesome midnight feasts I burned at the heartfire,
your dread hour never shared with gods.
11. Chorus: And once he slipped his neck in the strap of Fate,
His spirit veering black, impure, unholy,
once he turned he stpped at nothing,
seized with the frenzy
blinding driving to outrage--
wretched frenzy, cause of all our grief!
II. Choose the appropriate answer for each blank. (18%)
12. A literal translation o the Greek word "Areopagous" is the crag of _____.
(a) Ares (b) Zeus (c) Athena (d) Apollo
13. _____ is not an acceptable translation of the Greek word "harmartia."
(a) Tragic flaw (b) Moral defect (c) Mistake (d) harm
14. Apparently Tantalus was driven by a passion of hatred against the god,
which made him willing to sacrifice his son in order to bring upon them
the horror of being _____.
(a) cannibals (b) barbarians (c) sinners (d) patrons
15. Whenever Phineus was about to dine, the _____ who were called "the hounds
of Zeus" swwoped down and defiled the food, leaving it so foul that no one
could bear to near it, much less eat it.
(a) Gorgons (b) Hylas (c) Harpies (d) Talus
16. The stone of Unmercifulness in Athena's court was reserved for the _____.
(a) prosecutor (b) defendant (c) jury (d) witness
17. Pythia traces the peaceful succession of powers that controlled the great
prophetic site of Delphi. First, _____; then Tradition; and then Phobe,
grandmother of Apollo, who handed it over to him as a birthday gift.
(a) Mother Earth (b) Athena (c) Furies (d) Hera
III. Four great dramatists of ancient Greece are
(18)__________ (19)__________ (20)__________ (21)__________
(8%)
IV. Answer TWO of the following essay questions. (41%)
1. How does Aristotle define the plot as the most important of the six
conatituent parts of tragedy? Explain the term "cartharsis" in relation
to the plot.
2. Discuss the imagery of the net in relation to the problem of justice in
the trilogy of The Oresteia.
3. Interpret Oedipus's character as a mirror of the Athenaians in the age of
the Peloponnesian War. Explain why his tragic process may serve as a
warning to contemporary Athenians.
4. Explain the taming of the Furies in The Eumenides in relation to the
consolidation of patriarchal priciples in Greek culture.
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