※ 引述《hochengyuan (阿淵)》之銘言：
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題幹
Of Homer’s two epic poems, the Odyssey has always been more popular than the
Iliad, perhaps because it includes more features of mythology that are
accessible to readers. Its subject (to use Maynard Mack’s categories) is “
life-as-spectacle,” for readers, diverted by its various incidents, observe
its hero Odysseus primarily from without ; the tragic Iiiad, however
, presents“Iife-as-experience”: readers are asked to identify with the mind of
Achilles, whose motivations render him a not particularly likable hero.
In addition, the lliad, more than the Odyssey, suggests the complexity of the
gods’ involvement in human actions, and to the extent that modern readers
find this complexity a needless complication, the Iliod is less satisfying
than the Odyssey, with its simpler ‘scheme of divine justice. Finally,
since the Iliad presents a historically Verifiable action, Troy’s siege, the poem
raises historical questions that are Absent from the Odyssey’s blithely
imaginative world.
主題在說明為何Odyssey 比Iliad受歡迎
作者主張可能是因為perhaps because it includes more features of mythology that are
accessible to readers
之後給出三個說明
第一個說明是個超長的對比句子 由 ;連接兩個句子 說明hero之不同
第二個說明In addition =Second, 是在強調神對人的影響 不是在講hero
第三 Finally,Iliad presents a historically Verifiable action
所以少了features of mythology