天津大学 西方文化Final Review..docVIP

Glimpse into Western Culture Final Review Topics We Have Covered Greek Culture Roman Culture Bible Christianity Middle Ages Renaissance Reformation counter-reformation 17th Century Enlightenment Romanticism Realism I．Greek Culture 1. Homer His Epics First recorder of former oral, epic poems served to entertain the ancient Greeks Author of The Iliad and The Odyssey The two major epics of ancient Greece. 2. Drama Greeks performed plays at religious festivals. A powerful drama developed in the 5th century B.C. Aeschylus (525-456 B.C.) Prometheus Bound Sophocles (496-406 B.C.)--- has had a st