课程名称︰西洋文学概论一 课程性质︰外文系必带/与西概二、欧洲文学四选三 课程教师︰姜台芬 开课学院：文学院 开课系所︰外国语文学系 考试日期（年月日）︰103.1.9 考试时限（分钟）：90分钟 是否需发放奖励金：是 试题 : [范围：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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