World Literature

I. Works and Authors:

The Voter By Chinua Achebe
Once a upon a time by Gabriel Okara
Life in our Village By Matel Markwel
Literature of China:Analects by Confucious
The People of Tao ChouBy Po Chu I
The Spider’s Tread by Akutagawa Ryunosuke
About Work by Kahlil Gibran
Prognosis by Morris West
The Odyssey by Homer
Pygmalion by Ovid
My Boyhood in India By Krishnalal Sridharani

II. Country’s nickname:

Philippines : Pearl of the Orient
Japan : Land of the Rising Sun
Australia : Land Down Under
India : Second Most Thickly Populated Country
USA : Greatest Champion of the Free World
China : Land of the Rising Dragon
Korea : Land of the Morning Calm
Tibet : Roof of the World

III. Vocabulary:
De – virtue Sanskrit – oldest language in India
Ren – human heartedness
Li – form of moral life
Zhong (loyalty) , shu (altruism)
Xiao – Five relationship
Brahman – priest/scholars
Ksatriyas – warriors/ rulers
Shudras – sevants
Dalits – or the outcaste
Vedas – sacred knowledge
Odyssey – advetures

IV. Characters
Polyphemus – one eyed monster; son of Poseidon
Aeolous – keeper of the wind; he gave Odysseus a bag that contains all the people winds
Laestrygons – giant cannibals who ate most of Odysseus’ men
Circe – an enchantress who turned the men of Odysseus into pig
Hermes – messeger ni Zeus; helped Odysseus in his journey
Tiresias – prophey in the underworld.
Sirens – sea women that lures man to death by singing
Scylla – six headed monster
Charybdis – whirlwind

V. Gods and Goddesses

List of Greek Roman Counterparts Description / Roles of the Olympians

Olympians of Olympians
Zeus Jupiter or Jove King of the Olympian gods
Hera Juno Queen of the Olympian gods
Demeter Ceres Goddess of agriculture
Athena Minerva Goddess of wisdom
Artemis Diana Goddess of hunting
Apollo Apollo, the Roman god God of the sun and music
Ares Mars God of war
Hephaestus Vulcan God of fire and metal-working
Hermes Mercury Messenger of the Olympian gods
Aphrodite Venus Goddess of love and beauty
Hestia Vesta Goddess of the home and hearth
Hades Pluto God of the Underworld
Poseidon Neptune God of the Sea