Lecture-1-古希腊罗马神话-英文版-教学课件

原型理论(Myth Archetype Theory )
Plato (427-347 BCE) discussed his "Forms", postulating that all objects have an "ideal" "form" or structure. In particular, he taught that these "Forms" were pure or perfect objects of mathematical or other conceptual knowledge. He felt that these "pure" forms existed only in the realm of knowledge and never in the reality of human everyday existence. Individual things in the realm of appearance are beautiful only insofar as they participate in, correlate with, or approach in structure these universal "Forms" of Beauty.
原型理论(Myth Archetype Theory )
Karl Jung (1875-1961) took the concept of Plato's "Forms" further and presented his own Theory of Archetypes. In Jungian Psychology an Archetype is "an unconscious idea, pattern of thought, image, etc., inherited from the ancestors of the race and universally present in individual psyches". In simpler terms we could basically refer to an archetype as an "instinct". That is, in essence, an instinctual idea, pattern of thought, image, etc., inherited from the ancestors of the race and universally present in individual psyches. We now believe that the image of the "ideal" human face is indeed an "Archetype"; a subconscious image which we are born with and carry throughout our lives.
Therefore, there is some truth in the saying that
without certain knowledge of Greek and Roman mythology, one can never fully understand and appreciate western culture. (eg. literature, arts,… character)
Classical Greek and Roman
Mythology
Lecturer: Peng Xiaoling (彭晓玲)
Requirement and Evaluation
• Requirement: • 1. Punctual
attendance’
• 2. Active participation in the class
Language
❖ chaotic ❖ martial ❖ Promethean ❖ under the aegis of ❖ Jupiter laughs at lovers’ perjuries. ❖ Far from Jupiter, far from thunder. ❖ Without Ceres and Bacchus, Venus grows cold.
• 3. Extensive reading after class
• Evaluation: • 1. Class attendance:
10% • 2. Class
participation: 40% • 3. Final exam: 50%
About the Course
• Course Description • •Recommended Reading
Literature
❖ Keats
❖ Endymion ❖ Ode to Psyche
❖ James Joyce
❖ Ulysses (Odyssey)
❖ B. O’Neill
❖ Mourning Becomes Electra (Oresteia)
❖ George Bernard Shaw
❖ Pon
Significance of the Course
Greek and Roman mythology –– one of the three origins of western culture
having enormous influence upon western literature, arts, astronomy, social life…
……
Literature
❖ Shakespeare (1564-1616)
❖ Troilus and Cressida (tragedy) ❖ Venus and Adonis (poem)
Literature
❖ Shelley (1792-1822)
❖ Prometheus Unbound ❖ Hymn of Apollo ❖ Hymn of Pan ❖ Adonis