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☆Roman Numerals

Example:

   VI = 1+5=6

   IV = 1 from 5 = 4

   IX = 1 from 10 = 9

☆Movie(homework):Helen of Troy2003

      The abduction of beautiful Helen, wife of Spartan King Menelaus, by Paris of Troy triggers a long war. - Written by Anonymous

☆Epic Poetry

A lengthy narrative poem, ordinarily concerning a serious subject containing details of heroic deeds and events significant to a culture or nation.

narrative:longer than lyric

☆Three epics

  The Iliad of Homer

    The Iliad is an ancient Greek epic poem in dactylic hexameter, traditionally attributed to Homer. Set during the Trojan War, the ten-year siege of the city of Troy (Ilium) by a coalition of Greek states, it tells of the battles and events during the weeks of a quarrel between King Agamemnon and the warrior Achilles.

   Aeneid

The Aeneid is a Latin epic poem, written by Virgil between 29 and 19 BC,  that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who travelled to Italy, where he became the ancestor of the Romans. It comprises 9,896 lines in dactylic hexameter.

   Odyssey

      The Odyssey is fundamental to the modern Western canon, and is the second-oldest extant work of Western literature; the Iliad is the oldest. Scholars believe the Odyssey was composed near the end of the 8th century BC, somewhere in Ionia, the Greek coastal region of Anatolia

☆On Line Etymology Dictionary (Note)

• ori--- start,beginning

Example : origin,original,aboriginal,orient,-oriented,orientation