A World of Heroes. Selections from Homer, Herodotus and Sophocles. Text and Running Vocabulary

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The main character in the world literature of Sophocles' "Oedipus King", Homer's Odyssey, Tan's Joy Luck Club are two prototype main characters, mythical heroes and tragic heroes. Like Homer's Odysseus, the mythical hero represents a combination of superhuman virtue and human imperfection. These qualities create a supernatural adventure with a realistic character. The mythical hero is endorsed by the power of God and ultimately achieves a specific goal or completes a journey. As explained in literature, heroes often face the same tasks that ordinary people face and they must learn the same curriculum, but their actions, reactions, and events expand to a great proportion It will be. Therefore, ordinary people and mythical heroes obey what Joseph Campbell calls "hero's journey". And it is used as a tool to explain many of the most famous mythological frameworks in history. The story of "journey" is embodied first in ancient myths and legends

"Heroes of the world" is a reader designed for students who just completed an introductory course of ancient Greek language and want to read a substantive passage of the original text of an ancient writer. It introduces the three most important writers of ancient Greece, Homer, Herodotus and Sophocles, and includes exciting and influential things like Thermopylae's battle (history from Herodotus). The story; Death of Hector and the depravity of Edepus. The notes attached to each paragraph provide a large amount of vocabulary and translation assistance, and each section contains a brief introduction to the author and his work. The first edition of this book has been very successful for students and teachers for over 30 years. This is the second edition containing the same text as the first edition but provides more help to translate and understand them to better meet the needs of contemporary students.