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Oral poetry Homer, Iliad

genre 類型

epic poetry (is a lengthy narrative)

Vergil, Virgil literary epic

Ramayana: A Sanskrit epic, traditionally attributed to Valmiki, that concerns the banishment of Rama from his kingdom, the abduction of his wife Sita by a demon and her rescue, and Rama's eventual restoration to the throne.

Aeneid-Aeneas : The hero Aeneas was already known to Greco-Roman legend and myth, having been a character in the Iliad, composed in the 8th century BC.

Genes

Generation （birth , beginning）

Generator

Babel – the origin of language 火線交錯

In the medias res 從中間開始

Plague 瘟疫

Chryseis (crisis)

Phoibos

Pallas   ( 閃閃發亮)

Homeric epithet (似墓誌銘)