西洋文學概論

 What is the western literature about?

        1.      epic poetry (mythology, Odyssey)

        2.      tragedy, bible

 Augustine of Hippo

Augustine of Hippo , also known as Saint Augustine, Saint Austin,Blessed Augustine, and the Doctor of Grace, was an early Christian theologian and philosopher whose writings influenced the development of Western Christianity and Western philosophy. He was the bishop of Hippo Regius , located in Numidia. He is viewed as one of the most important Church Fathers in Western Christianity for his writings in the Patristic Era. Among his most important works are The City of God and Confessions.

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 Aristophanes

Aristophanes , son of Philippus, of the deme Kydathenaion, was a comic playwright of ancient Athens. Eleven of his forty plays survive virtually complete. These, together with fragments of some of his other plays, provide the only real examples of a genre of comic drama known as Old Comedy, and are used to define it.

 extra notes:

Futile adjective / having no effect or achieving nothing

 △synanym: in vain , wasteless