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Tales of Great Heroes 9 Hercules was grown enough to choose his life path. Lady Vice persuaded Hercules to choose her way of life. Lady Virtue advised Hercules not to listen to Vice but choose Virtue instead. A huge yellow lion ran at Hercules's cows. H jumped up and chased the lion without avail. King Thestius was the king of the city of Mount Cithaeron. Thestius had 50 daughters. Hercules stayed...

Tales of Great Heroes 8 Perseus's son Electryon had one daughter called Alcmena. Electryon's nephew Amphitryon went fighting for Electryon's stolen cows and Alcmena's hand. Amphitryon accidentally killed Electryon. Thebes king Creon bade Amphitryon to kill the Teumessian fox set by Dionysus. Zeus was thinking to trick Alcmena into giving birth to a god-like son. Zeus disguised as Amphitryon and pr...

Tales of Great Heroes 7 In Argolis of Greece, King Acrisius had a lovely daughter Danae. Acrisius went ask Apollo at Delphi why he didn't have any son. Messenger said that his daughter Danae's son will grow up to kill Acrisius. Upon this, Acrisius locked daughter Danae high up on a tall tower without meeting anyone. Zeus learnt about the beauty of Danae. Zeus changed himself into a shower of golde...

Tales of Great Heroes 6 Zeus was in pursuit of the great human Prometheus talked about who could save all the gods. Zeus started to keep track of all the seven children born by Cadmus and Harmonia. The eldest was a girl called Autonoe. Autonoe's son boasted of his own hunting skill and was thus turned into a deer by Artemis and was killed by his own dogs. The second was a girl called Ino. Ino's hu...

Tales of Great Heroes 5 Typhon was the last of titan. Typhon was so tall that the stars would tangle in his hair, with a hundred heads and tongues like snake's. He has wings grown on his shoulders. Typhon walked from Asia to Greece, causing storms all the way. Typhon wishes to destroy the palace on Olympus and he himself be the ruler of it. All gods fled. Artemis put on head of cat and was called...

Tales of Great Heroes 4 Zeus wished to destroy all mankind. Hermes advised that they sampled two out of three households first. If two of them were good-hearted, maybe humans could still be there in Bronze Age. First Zeus went to Arcadia of Greece. The king was Lycaon, who ate his sons at his whims. Zeus turned him into wolf, and bade him to wander in the forest in the rest of his life. Next Zeus...

Tales of Great Heroes 3 Prometheus decided to give humans fire to cook food with. Prometheus asked little brother Epimetheus to look after human when he was away to steal some fire from Olympus and Epimetheus would have to shun away from Zeus's any particular "gift". Athena was daughter of Zeus. Athena made Arachne into a spider for the latter boasted of her own weaving skill. Athena helped Promet...

Tales of Greek Heroes 2 Golden Age: Humans don't reproduce Silver Age: Humans look to Cronos and Titans and were also locked up in Tartarus Zeus made good Titan Prometheus to sculp new humans according to the image of the gods from clay. Zeus breathed in air into humans. Zeus decreed life span of humans. Zeus particularly asked Prometheus not to bring fire to humans. Thus humans came to be. Zeus w...

Tales of the Greek Heroes 1 Roger Lancelyn Green (1918-1987) Romans used different names for the Greek gods. Zeus - Jupiter - the king of the gods Hera - Juno - the goddess of women and marriage Aphrodite - Venus - the goddess of love Hades - Pluto - the god of dead people Poseidon - Neptune - the god of the sea Persephone - the goddess of dead people Hermes - Mercury - the messenger of the gods D...

白鯨記大結局 Without any sight of Moby Dick, Ahab realized he had sailed too fast since Moby Dick was slowed by all the strappings they made him yesterday. Starbuck regretted he felt that he was disobeying God when he obeyed Ahab. By turning round, Pequod now caught up with Moby Dick. Before Ahab went hunting Moby Dick, he called upon Starbuck and said he had started upon this hunting voyage for t...

Moby Dick 15 決戰大白鯨第一天 Moby Dick spotted. Moby Dick stoved Ahab's boat. Moby Dick almost swallowed Ahab's whaleboat. Ahab clung to Moby Dick's teeth. Moby Dick flung Ahab off. Ahab fell into sea. Ahab broke his whalebone leg. Starbuck steered Pequod close to Ahab and rescued them. Ahab offered 10 times the gold coin's value to share with the 30 seamen if they helped him hunt Moby Dick. 決戰...

Moby Dick 14 sextant 六分儀; 圓的六分之一 (2 1 4) Ahab lost his senses speaking to the sun complaining sun didn't help as well as his sailing tools. Typhoon came. The sails were torn. Masts were on fire. Ahab evoked that the fire was a Godsent for him to find Moby Dick. One harpoon hung on the bow of one whaleboat caught fire too. Sailors were terrified by sight of the burning harpoon. Ahab warned...

Moby Dick 13 Starbuck asked Ahab to stop sailing and check the leaking of oil barrels. Ahab refused and pointed a gun toward Starbuck. Starbuck warned that Ahab needn't be afraid of him but need to be afraid of himself instead. Ahab reflected a little bit and conceded and let Starbuck check the leaking of barrels. Queequeg got seriously ill working down at the hold of the ship. Q asked for a woode...

Moby Dick 12 Tashtego taught Ahab if he caught a right whale and hung its head also at the bow, Pequod would not sink. Stubb hated Tashtego and vowed to kill him if he had chance. German ship Fungfrau went onboard to borrow some oil to light their lamps. Ahab decided to go through Sunda Straits from Indian Ocean into Pacific Ocean. Black little boy Pip was afraid of water. He was called on to take...

Moby Dick 11 Pequod spot a huge white squid. Queequeg said if there is squid, sperm whale cannot be too far. Stubb and Tashtego successfully caught a sperm whale. Stubb had to lance the whale directly in the heart for the big creature to die eventually. Little boats carried the whale body back to Pequod. The butchering of the whole body took one whole day. Harpooneers cut the body and hook the blu...

Moby Dick 10 hunting grounds: Azores, Cape Verde, mouth of River Plate, St. Helena Island Met ship Albatross, which looked like ghost ship. Whaling ship never lands unless they return to Nantucket. Not even for water to drink. Whaling ship prepares hundreds of thousands of barrels of water before they depart. Ahab dropped his speaking trumpet while he exchanged information with the other captains....

Moby Dick 9 Ahab secretly brought 5 Asian men onboard without ship owners knowing it. Ahab did so in case mates prepared to mutiny. Ishmael had his first encounter with whale fishing. Starbuck's whaleboat nearly crashed. Starbuck's crew were saved onto Pequod. Ishmael left his will leaving his belongings to Queequeg. -- Hosting provided by SoundOn

Moby Dick 8 Tashtego suspected Ahab's nemesis was named Moby Dick. Queequeg asked if Moby Dick had harpoons still on its body. Daggoo asked if Moby Dick spout higher than most whales. Ahab was possessed with revenging Moby Dick. Ahab asked everyone on board to swear revenge with him. Starbuck seemed reserved. Crew had some whisperings. Moby Dick is indestructible. Moby Dick can be seen in differen...

Moby Dick 7 Below captain Ahab, there were three mates: Starbuck - Queequeg (Starbuck's quote: "I will have no man under my boat who is not afraid of a whale.") Stubb - Tashtego (always piping)(Tashtego was American Indian; good at harpooning) Flask - Daggoo (short, white-blond hair) (black African, huge-build) Ahab and three mates and their respective harpooneer live at the back of Pequod. Rest 2...

Moby Dick 6 Pequod got himself onto Pequod by demonstrating his finesse at harpooning. "He belongs to the great church whose members are all the religious people in the whole world". Queequeg won the hearts of the two ship owners. An ominous person warned Ishmael and Queequeg three times not to get onboard Ahab's whale ship. Elijah is the name of the person. Queequeg was estimated 90 lay in the ey...

Moby Dick 5 Queequeg's little idol was called Yojo. Queequeg let Yojo decide which ship to take. Ishmael felt uneasy about his own fate been decided by a heathen little wooden figurine, went to find ideal whale ship himself. Among Devil-Dam, Tit-bit and Pequod, the last stood out for its age and its whale bone decorations all over the ship. Ishmael met Peleg, one of the two ship owners. Ishmael pa...

Moby Dick 4 Ishmael and Queequeg became bosom friends. Queequeg was from Kokovoko island, South Sea. Queequeg was a prince and many of whose uncles in mother's side were brave fighters. Q adores western civilization when he was young. After he had been turned down by captain of the first whale boat to Kokovoko, he smuggled himself onto the ship anyway. Captain took him for his courage. Ishmael ask...

Moby Dick 3 pioneer 前驅者 harpooneer 魚叉手 musketeer 劍客 trumpeteer 小喇叭手 Drew Prichard 英國古貨商 難怪通勤時, 日本人外國人 人手一本書 Harpooneer returned. Harpooneer got a whole face of dark purple tattoos. Harpooneer smoked his tomahawk pipe, and started worshipping his small figurine. Harpooneer stripped, showing whole body of tattoos. Harpooneer jumped onto bed. Ishmael yelled for Peter...

Moby Dick 2 Ishmael speaks. Ishmael once went whale-hunting. Ishmael landed on an unknown small inn in New Bedford. Inn looked dark and mysterious. Walls were hung either whale-hunting picture or obtuse whale-hunting tools. Landlord Peter Coffin wanted him to share the only room he could have with a harpooneer. Peter said Whaling Ship Grampus had arrived. Ishmael waited at the bar for the whole ni...

Moby Dick 1 Herman Melville Sperm Whale's fat is the most valuable in 1871. Whaling ship has 3 masts. Whaling ship has several boats on it. Narrator: Ishmael Hero: Ahab Whaling ship: Pequod Whaling seasons start from spring to summer. Whaling journey usually lasts 3 to 4 years. Nantucket was the first American whaling port. Theme: Captain Ahab desires to get revenge on Moby Dick and the effect on...