外研社现代大学英语（第三版）精读3教学课件B3U4.pptx

;Lead-in;Lead-in;Lead-in;Lead-in;Lead-in;Text;Text;Highet’s books, The Art of Teaching (1950) and The Immortal Profession (1976), both on teaching, are literary classics. No classical scholar in America but him could have written The Classical Tradition (1949). The same should be said of Poets in a Landscape (1957).;Text;Text;What happens during their encounter is familiar to us all. But the exact meaning of this encounter is still open to discussion. Great literature never dies. It has eternal charm. It is the same with many historical figures discussed in history. Many of them, though born and brought up hundreds or even thousands of years ago, still have direct bearing on today’s realities. They have eternal importance. In fact as time goes on their relevance and importance may even increase. They never get out of date. They become part of the human heritage we all treasure.;3. Structure This essay is an excellent example of contrast, the contrast of two legendary figures. It can be divided neatly into two big parts: the first part describes Diogenes the beggar; the second part describes Alexander the conqueror, in sharp contrast to the beggar, and their dramatic encounter. In addition, there are contrasts within this major contrast: the contrast between Diogenes and ordinary beggars, between him and ordinary people, between him and the other philosophers of his time, between him and all those people who are busy preparing for war, as well as between him and all those who are ready to kiss the boots of Alexander. There is also the contrast between Alexander and other Macedonians. It is largely due to all these dramatic contrasts that we are left with such a deep impression of these two characters.; Diogenes and Alexander Gilbert Highet 1 Lying on the bare earth, shoeless, bearded, half-naked, he looked like a beggar or a lunatic. He was one, but not the other. He had opened his eyes with the sun at dawn, scratched, done his business like a dog at the r