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Books


2025
Jan: Euripides's Medea (Svarlien; 呂健忠)
Jan: Aristophanes' Lysistrata (Svarlien; 呂健忠)
Jan: Saga of Volsungs (Jesse L Byock)
Mar: Nibelungenlied 1-19 (Hatto; Edwards); 20-39 (Whobrey; Edwards). Hatto's intro to 2R
Mar: Poetic Edda. Sinfiotli to end (Larrington)
Apr: Waltharius (Brian Murdoch)
Apr: Saga of King Hrolf Kraki (Byock)
Apr: Nibelungenlied 1-19, Klage (Whobrey); 1-2 (Raffel)
May: Euripides's Helen (Svarlien; Emily Wilson), Orestes (Svarlien; Ian Johnston), Ion (Svarlien); audio by Center for Hellenic Studies
May: Kudrun Part 1-2 (Whobrey)


2024
[Jan: Dragon King's Daugther (楊憲益, 戴乃迭)]
[Feb: DH Lawrence's 查泰萊 (饒述一)]
Feb: Ovid's Tristia, Ex Ponto (Slavitt)
Mar: Homeric Hymns (Jules Cashford)
Mar: Apollodorus's Library (JG Frazer); 希臘神話 (周作人)
Apr: Ovid's Amores, Cosmetics, Cures (Melville)
Apr: Song of Roland, etc (OUP Gaunt and Pratt); 羅蘭之歌 (楊憲益)
[Apr: 二葉亭四迷 :: 浮雲 (石堅白)]
[Apr: 夏目漱石 :: 心 (林皎碧)]
May: Death of King Arthur, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Simon Armitage)
May: King Lear (孫大雨)
[May: Peter Brook's Open Door (于東田)]
Jun: Mahabharata: 摩訶婆羅多毗濕摩篇 (黃寶生); Retold by Devdutt Pattanaik (余淑慧), by Rajaji (唐季雍), by Carriere/Peter Brook
Jun: 第十二夜 (方平); 元宵 (陳均潤)
[Jul: James Joyce's Dubliners: Sis. to Mother]
[Aug: Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms; 戰地春夢 (湯新楣)]
[Aug: 格非::雪隱鷺鷥卷一, 卷三]
Sept: Pearl (Jane Draycott)
[Sept: OUP vsi: Vatican II, Angels]
[Oct: TS Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral]
Oct: Dante's Inferno (Allen Mandelbaum)
Oct: Euripides's Andromache, Hecuba, Trojan Women (DA Svarlien); Marina Carr's Hecuba
Nov: Battle Between the Frogs and the Mice (AE Stallings)
Dec: Dante's Purgatorio (Durling; Merwin; 黃國彬; 田德望; 朱維基); Audio by Lucilla Giagnoni
Dec: Euripides's Alcestis (DA Svarlien; Ted Hugh)


2023
Jan: 歷史書 (前先知書) (馮象)
Jan: Ovid's Metamorphoses (Stephanie McCarter)
[Jan: 白先勇::臺北人]
Feb: Keats 濟慈詩選 (查良錚)
Feb: Ovid's Fasti (Anne Wiseman)
Feb: Samuel 1, ch.1-14 (Everett Fox)
Apr: Ovid's Metamorphoses (Allen Mandelbaum)
Jun: Apollonius of Rhodes's Jason and Argonauts (Aaron Poochigian)
[Jul: 三毛::撒哈拉歲月, 稻草人的微笑, 夢中的橄欖樹, 快樂鬧學去, 萬水千山走遍, 流浪的終站]
[Aug: 賀喜, 科大衛::秘密社會的秘密]
Aug: Virgil's Aeneid (David West)
Sept: Sophocles's Oedipus the King (Berg and Clay)
[Sept: Yevgeny Zamyatin's We (何瑄)]
Oct: Apollonius of Rhodes's Argonautika, Bk 1--2 (Peter Green)
Nov: Iliad (Emily Wilson); Bk 1--7 (呂健忠)
Nov: Horace's Epodes and Odes (David West)
[Nov: 尚仲賢::柳毅傳書雜劇; Liu Yi and Dragon Princess (David Hawkes)]
Dec: Dante's Purgatorio (Sisson)
[Dec: 巴爾扎克::都爾的本堂神甫, 比哀蘭德 (傅雷)]
[Dec: Hammett's The Maltese Falcan]


2022
[Feb: Jean Webster's Daddy-Long-Legs]
[Feb: Jean Webster's Dear Enemy, sequel to DLL]
Feb: Goethe's 浮士德第一部 (錢春綺)
[Mar: Ibsen's Hedda Gabler, Lady from the Sea, Master Builder (呂健忠)]
Apr: Sophocles's Oedipus Tyrannos (Emily Wilson, 呂健忠, Dudley Fitts)
[Apr: 宋怡明::被統治的藝術]
[Jun: 格理弗遊記卷三飛行島 (單德興)]
Sept: Shakespeare's 暴風雨 (楊牧)
Sept: Virgil's Aeneid VI (Seamus Heaney)
Nov: John Milton's Paradise Lost
Nov: Lord Byron's 青銅時代, 貝波, 唐璜選段 (查良錚)
[Dec: 李零::喪家狗]
Dec: Aeschylus's Oresteia (呂健忠)
Dec: Sophocles's Theban plays: Oedipus At Colonus, Antigone (呂健忠)
Dec: Sophocles's Trachiniae, Ajax, Philoctetes, Electra (呂健忠)
Dec: John Milton's Paradise Regained
Dec: 源氏物語, 紫上系及第二部至雲隱 (林文月)


2021
Jan: Tales from Ovid (Ted Hugh)
Jan: Virgil's Eclogues (David Ferry)
May: Hesiod's Work and Days (ML West)
Jun: Alcestis, Phedre, Oresteia (Ted Hugh)
[Jul: Enola Holmes Mysteries 1,3,5,6]
Aug: Ovid's Heroides (Murgatroyd et al.)
Aug: Euripides's Electra (Emily Wilson)
Sept: Ovid's Metamorphoses 1--7 (Charles Martin)
[Oct: Henrietta Harrison's The Missionary's Curse 中譯]
Oct: 近松門左衛門::平家女護島 (錢稻孫)
Oct: 貝奧武甫 (馮象)
Oct: Beowulf (Seamus Heaney)
Oct: Beowulf (Maria Davana Headley)
Nov: Petrarch's Canzoniere, oup selections (Mark Musa)
Nov: Euripides's Helen (Emily Wilson)
Nov: Aristophanes's 利西翠坦 (呂健忠)
[Dec: 知堂回想錄]
Dec: Seneca's six tragedies (Emily Wilson)
Dec: 太安萬侶::古事記 (周作人)
Dec: 式亭三馬::浮世澡堂 (周作人)


2020
Jan: Ovid's 變形錄 (呂健忠)
Jan: Virgil's Aeneid (Sarah Ruden)
Mar: Virgil's Georgics (David Ferry)
May: Gilgamesh (David Ferry)
May: Horace's Epistles (David Ferry)
May: Horace's Odes (David Ferry)
Jun: Apuleius's Golden Ass: Cupid and Psyche (Sarah Ruden)
Jun: Apuleius's Golden Ass: Cupid and Psyche (Robert Graves)
Aug: 先知書 (後先知書) (馮象)
Nov: Odyssey (Emily Wilson)
Dec: Confessions of St. Augustine (Sarah Ruden)


2019
Mar: Decameron (Mark Musa)
Jul: Dante's Divine Comedy (Mark Musa)
Sept: Ovid's Heroides (Harold Isbell)
Sept: Song of Roland (Robert Harrison)
Sept: Ovid's Metamorphoses 1--3 (Horace Gregory)


齊東負鼓盲翁


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齊東負鼓盲翁 的 典故

《齊東負鼓》中的典故講述的是一位盲人以鼓為生的故事。這位盲翁在齊國的東邊,因為失明,無法辨別音樂的高低。他的鼓聲雖然響亮,但缺乏節奏,常常受到人們的嘲笑。

故事的核心在於揭示盲翁的堅持與熱愛,儘管他遭遇困難,仍然努力追求自己的藝術。這個典故常用來表達對於追求夢想、克服困難的尊重,或形容某些人對事物的認知不足而造成的失誤。

出自何典

《齊東負鼓》出自《戰國策》,具體是《戰國策·齊策》。這篇故事通過盲翁的形象,強調了對音樂藝術的追求以及人們對於才能和努力的不同看法。典故常用來諷刺那些不能正確評價他人能力的人。

請引原文

《齊東負鼓》這個典故出自《戰國策》,具體是《戰國策·齊策》。故事講述了一位盲翁在齊國東邊以鼓為生的情景。這位盲翁雖然失明,但他仍然堅持敲鼓,並且對自己的藝術充滿熱情。雖然他的鼓聲缺乏節奏,常常受到周圍人的嘲笑,但他依然不懈追求自己的夢想。

以下是《齊東負鼓》的原文:

> 斜陽古柳赵家庄,负鼓盲翁正作场。
> 死后是非谁管得,满村听说蔡中郎。

這段詩句描繪了盲翁在村莊中表演的情景,並引發了對於人們如何評價他人及其藝術的思考。這個典故常用來諷刺那些不能正確評價他人能力的人,並強調內心的價值和追求的重要性。

### 典故的意義
- **堅持與熱愛**:盲翁的故事象徵著對藝術的堅持和熱愛。
- **評價的偏見**:故事反映了人們對於才能的不同看法,提醒我們不應以表面來評價他人。

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Orestes, Ion


Euipides, trs by Svarlien

Orestes, line 395:
My body's gone; my name is with me still.

我雖形銷骨立, 但名字猶存

418.
Terror pays back terror.

653.
Well said; go and speak. For sometimes silence / is better than speech, and sometimmes speech is better.

(by Ian Johnston, 756)
You’re right. Speak up. / There are times when silence may be better, / but there are also times when speaking / is preferable to saying nothing.


Ion, 264:
O gods, is there no limit to your nerve, / nothing you won't dare? And then---what next? / What court will hear our grievances? Injustice / destroys us, but the unjust have the power.

Checks for pedagogy


Grant Sanderson (3blue1brown)
Math's pedagogical curse, JPBM Award Lecture, JMM 2023

Checks for rigor
* Are the definitions unambiguous?
* Has each object in each theorem been given a clear definition?
* Is each claim given a rigourous justification?

Checks for pedagogy
* Do definitions have motivating examples?
* Do proofs feel rediscover-able?
* Is there personality?
* Are there enough diagrams?
* Is relative importance highlighted?