*三大悲劇詩人: Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides
Medea is a woman in Greek mythology. She was the daughter of King Aeëtes of Colchis,[1] niece ofCirce, granddaughter of the sun god Helios, and later wife to the hero Jason, with whom she had two children, Mermeros and Pheres. In Euripides's play Medea, Jason leaves Medea when Creon, king of Corinth, offers him his daughter, Glauce.[2] The play tells about how Medea avenges her husband's betrayal.
Enchant(v.) to charm or please someone a lot:
He was enchanted by stories of the Old West.
Climax (n.) the most important or exciting part in the development of a story or situation, which usually happens near the end:
The novel built to a shattering climax, leaving me breathless.
Python 大蟒蛇
Pythian oracle = Apollo’s oracle
Ex –out
exile
exit
exhibit
riddle(n.) a question that has a surprising or amusing answer, or something that is a mystery or is hard to explain:
Scholars have not completely solved the riddle of the sphinx.
Hubris, also hybris, means extreme haughtiness, pride or arrogance.
(n.) an extreme and unreasonable feeling of pride and confidence in yourself:
Hubris brought him down in the end.
Rexàking
․“Oedipus” mean “swollen foot”
․Laius was killed at a crossroad.
*Laius, a king of Thebes who was mistakenly killed by his son, Oedipus.
․Creon became the king of Thebes after the fall of Oedipus.
․Jocasta, a queen of Thebes who unknowingly married to her own son, Oedipus..
․Antigone, the daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta
․Dionysus was the god of the grape harvest, winemaking and wine, of ritual madness and ecstasy in Greek mythology.