Ancient European Literature欧洲古代文学

Speaking of the mythical Oedipus, Freud put it in these terms: “ His destiny moves us only because it might have been ours –- because the oracle laid the same curse upon us before our birth as upon him. It is the fate of all of us, perhaps, to direct our first sexual impulse towards our mother and our first hatred and our first murderous wish against our father. Our dreams convince us that this is so.”
Writers and their masterpieces
Aristophane (448---385?BC) The Acharnians Plato (427---347BC) Aristotle (384---322BC) Poetics Roman writers: Virgil (70---19BC) Aeneid Horace (65---8BC) The Art of Poetry Ovid (43---17BC) Metamorphosis
Chapter 1 Ancient European Literature
Liu Ying
Writers and their masterpieces Greek and Roman Mythology Greek writers: Sappho (612--- ?BC) Anakreon (ca.570---?BC) Aesop’s Fable Aeschylus (525 ---456 BC) Prometheus Bound Sophocles (ca.496 ---406BC) Oedipus the King Euripides (485---406BC) Medea

The first verses of the Iliad
Greece: Helen, Menelaus, Agamemnon, Achilles, Ulysses, Atreus,
Troy: Alexandrus (Paris), Hector, Chryseis, Chryses, Antenor, Priam,
Idealized portrayal of Homer dating to the Hellenistic period. British Museum. Lived: ca. 8th century BC

Homer and His Guide, by William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825– 1905). The scene portrays Homer on Mount Ida, beset by dogs and guided by the goatherder, Glaucus. (The tale is told in Pseudo-Herodotus).
Greece according to the Iliad
Sophocles: Born: 496 BCE, Greece Died: 406 BCE Nationality: Athenian Writing period: Theatre of ancient Greece Genres: Tragedy and Satyr plays
The Oedipus complex, in psychoanalytic theory, is a group of largely unconscious (dynamically repressed) ideas and feelings which centre around the desire to possess the parent of the opposite sex and eliminate the parent of the same sex. According to classical theory, the complex appears during between the ages of three and five, though oedipal manifestations may be detected earlier.
What
is an epic?
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epic is a lengthy narrative poem, ordinarily concerning a serious subject containing details of heroic deeds and events significant to a culture or nation.
Sphinx’s riddle: ※What is the creature that walks on four legs in the morning, two at noon, and three in the evening?
Sphinx’s riddle: (Man, who creeps in infancy, walks upright in manhood, and supports his steps with staff in old age.)