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1、1.概况（West Is West）2.古希腊文化（The Greek Culture）3.罗马帝国（Pax Romana）4.希伯莱文化（An Eye for an Eye）5.中世纪（The Expansionist Medieval Period）6.文艺复兴（Bridge Between the Middle Ages and the Modern Era）7.十七世纪（Issues of the 17th Century Europe and Their Influence）,LECTURES,The West,The Classical West The Medieval West

2、 The Modern West,Greco-Roman,Judeo-Christian,Transitional Period,Renaissance&Reformation,Scientific RevolutionEnlightenmentEra of RevolutionGreat Wars&Cold WarDynamic Changes,What is“Culture”?,辞海:人类社会由野蛮而至文明，其努力所得 之成绩，表现于各方面者，为科学、艺术、宗教、道德、法律、风俗、习惯等，其综合体，则谓之文化。Culture:The ideas,customs,skills,arts,et

3、c.of a given people in a given period.(Websters New World Dictionary,1985),“A people without the knowledge of their past history,origin and culture is like a tree without roots.”-Marcus Garvey(Jamaican publisher),-Sir Francis Bacon,“Histories make men wise;poems witty;the mathematics subtle;natural

4、philosophy deep;moral grave;logic and rhetoric able to contend.”,Greek Column Capitals,=the masculine style,=the feminine style,Corinthian,Doric,Ionic,Caryatid(女像柱),Unit OneWest is West,“The West”,-developed countries,Terra(Roman)=Gaia(Greek)=Earth Mother,Mediterranean Sea,Two elements of Western Cu

5、lture,The Greco-Roman elementThe Judeo-Christian element,Two elements of Western Culture,Two elements of Western Culture,Place:around the Mediterranean SeaPeople:the Greeks,the JewsLanguage:Hellenic(古希腊語),HebrewLiterature:mythological,religiousClassics:the Homeric epics,The Bible,Origins of Western

6、Culture,The Hellenic Tradition The Hebraic TraditionMythological culture Religious culture Polytheistic 多神Monotheistic 单神 Humanism 人文主義Theism 神文主義 Hedonism 享樂Asceticism 禁慾 For this world 今生For the other world 來世 Secular life 世俗生話Divine life 神明生活 Id(本我)&Ego(自我)Super-ego(超我),Duality,The cradle of West

7、ern civilization?,Flag?,Blue and WhiteThe Hellenic SeaRestless wavesAphrodite(E-lef-the-ri-a i Tha-na-tos)Orthodoxy,Greek Mythology,Chaos,Gaea,(mother of earth),Tartarus,t:trs,(underworld),Eros,(love,sexual attraction),Erebus,(darkness),Nyx,(night),di:,Gaea(the earthmother earth),Uranus(the skylord

8、of the universe),6 Titans&6 Titanesses,CoeusCriusCronusHyperionLapetusMnemosyneoceanusPhoebeRheaTethysTheiaThemis,ArgesBrontesSteropes,BriareusCottusGyes,(lord of the universe),The birth of Venus(Aphrodite)by Sandro Botticelli,c.1485,Hestia,Demeter,Hera,Poseidon,Hades,Zeus,the lord of the universe,w

9、ife of Zeusgoddess of women&marriage,goddess of agriculture,goddess of the hearth and its fire,God of sea,horses&earthquakes,god ofthe underworld,god of agriculture,goddess of plenty,Cronus&Rhea,Cronus Devouring His Children,12 Olympians,Hestia,Demeter,Hera,Poseidon,Zeus,Hermes,Hephaestus,Ares,Apollo,Artemis,Athena,Aphrodite,Ouranos,(Saturn),(Uranus),EuropaZeusIsland of Crete,EuropaConstellation TaurusJovian Moon 木卫二,