读希腊神话学英语第一季1： 维纳斯的诞生.ppt

BY Joy 王茜 The Birth of Venus The mythology of the admired Greeks and Romans represented something more than gay and pretty fairy-tales. They were so convinced of the superior wisdom of the ancients that they believed these classical legends must contain some profound and mysterious truth. admired adj. 受人钦佩的；感到羡慕的 convince vt. 说服；使确信，使信服 profound adj. 深厚的；意义深远的；渊博的 The Birth of Venus is a painting generally thought to have been painted in the mid 1480s. It depicts the goddess Venus, having emerged from the sea as an adult woman, arriving at the shore. Creation myth 希腊神话是西方文明的源泉。在希腊神话中,?最早的神叫卡俄斯(Chaos)，即是混沌之义,在混沌之中首先产生了大地之神———盖娅(Gaea)以及一系列与之相关的众神，盖娅自己生下了天神乌兰诺斯(Uranus)。之后盖娅与自己的儿子乌兰诺斯结合生下了提坦（Titans）神族的12?个神灵，其主神是宙斯（Zeus）。 Creation myth Aphrodite According to Hesiods Theogony 神谱, she was born when Cronus cut off Uranuss genitals and threw them into the sea, and she arose from the sea foam (aphros). According to Homers Iliad, she is the daughter of Zeus and Dione. genital n. 生殖器官 foam n. 泡沫 （an ocean of milk; the milky way） Creation myth Venus is the Roman goddess whose functions encompass love, beauty, sex, fertility, prosperity, victory, and desire. 希腊名字?????????? 罗马名字???????? 主司职责? Aphrodite(阿芙罗狄蒂)??????Venus(维纳斯)????? 爱与美的女神? Apollo(阿波罗)?????????????? Phoebus(菲波斯)???? 太阳神，掌管音乐、诗歌 Artemis(阿耳特弥斯)?????????Diana(黛安娜)???????????狩猎女神和月亮女神 Athena(雅典娜)??????????????Minerva(米涅瓦)?????????智慧和技术及工艺之神 Eros(厄洛斯)???????????????? Cupid(丘比特)????????????爱神 《一根金线》1890年由J.M.斯图威克所作的油画。 Moerae命运三女神。 居左者为亲手纺织生命之线的克洛托；最左边的是正在测量生命之线长短的拉刻西斯；居中者为阿特罗波斯Morta，她正打算用剪刀剪断已决定了命运的生命之线。 the?Tragedy?of?Oedipus?the?King Oedipus Complex 俄底浦斯情结 Griffindor（格兰芬多）来自希腊神话中的一种鹰头狮身的神兽，故而格兰芬多学员的院徽就是一只狮子。