21st Flashcards
-literally translated as Master “ KUNG-FU-TZU” or KUNGFUZI
- by tradition, he is said to have been born on September 28, 551 BCE
- a chinese thinker and educator
- founder of Ru School of Chinese
- proponent of confucianism
- his disciples compiled “ the analects”
- one of his renowned concept is “ do not do to others what do not want others do unto
you
Confucius
- is an anthology of brief passages that present the words of confucius and his
disciples - it includes TWENTY BOOKS
- much of the work concerns itself with the concept of:
- The Tao or The Way
- the chun-tzu of The Gentleman
- Li or Ritual
- Te or Virtue
- Jen or Goodness
THE ANALECTS
- it depicts the eternal struggle between the powers of good and evil
- it illustrates the power of love and how it can transform us irrevocably
THE TALE OF OSIRIS AND ISIS
- egyptian pharaoh who reign in the beginning of egypt, King of Death
(protagonist)
OSIRIS
sister and wife of Osiris ( protagonist)
ISIS
oldest son of Osiris (protagonist)
HARPOCRATES
evil brother of Osiris, cruel and jealous of his brother (antagonist)
SET
king of Gods
RA
sky goddess, mother of Osiris
NUT
earth god, father of Osiris
GEB
- god of wisdom
THOTH
moon goddess
SILENE
- brother of Osiris
HORUS
sister of Osiris
NEPHTHYS
- he is credited with being the first to write down the epic stories of “The Iliad” and
“The Odyssey” - he was born sometime between the 12th and 8th BC, possibly somewhere on the
coast of Asia Minor
HOMER
- epic poem in 24 books traditionally attributed to the ancient greek poet Homer.
- the poem is the story of ___________, King of Ithaca, who wonders for 10 years
(although the action of the poem covers only the final six weeks) trying to get home
after the trojan war. On his return, he is recognized only by his faithful dog and a nurse.
With the help of his son, Telemachus, Odysseus destroys the insistent suitors of his
wife, Penelope, and several of her maids who had fraternized with the suitors and
reestablishes himself in his kingdom.
THE ODYSSEY
- it is a tragic epic poem of more than 15,000 lines organized by scholars in Alexandria
into 24 books - Homer’s ________ describes the final year of the trojan war, a legendary conflict between
an alliance of Greek cities and the city of troy in Anatolia. It was probably written
sometime in the 8th century BCE after a long oral tradition, but the Greeks themselves
imagined the war to have occurred sometime in the 13th century BCE during the
Bronze Age. the greeks thought Homer was from Chios or lonia and credited him with
both the Iliad and Odyssey, the two masterpieces of greek literature. They also thought
him the greatest ever writer and referred to him simply as ‘the poet’
THE ILIAD
-He was born on January 19, 1809 in Boston, Massachusetts U.S and died on October
7, 1849 in Baltimore, Maryland
- He was the son of the English-born actress Elizabeth Arnold Poe and David Poe Jr.
An actor from Baltimore and the husband of Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe
- He was a poet
- Master of Macabre
- Pioneer of Science Fiction
- Father of the Detective Story
EDGAR ALLAN POE
Publication Date : November 1846
Genre : Horror Short Story
Publisher : Godey’s Lady’s Book
Media Type: Magazine
THE CASK OF AMONTILLADO
loss his family because of Fortunato
Montresor
well-known business man
Fortunato
another wine expert, always mentioned by Montresor
Luchesi
commanded not to leave the house
The servants
-It is an ancient Sanskirt poem describing the mythical Kurukshetra War between two sets of brothers descended from the king Bharata: The pandavas and the Kauravas
-Takes dharma as its central theme
-Its written and unabridged form, the poem is compsed of 100,000 verses, making it the longest of all the ancient epic tales.
Mahabharata
