大学英语课--希腊罗马神话8.ppt

1、GREEK MYTHOLOGY,Week 8,Example,QUESTION 1,QUESTION 2,QUESTION 3,QUESTION 4,QUESTION 5,QUESTION 6,QUESTION 7,What is the womans name?,QUESTION 8,QUESTION 9,QUESTION 10,What is the name of the man with the apple?,QUESTION 11,QUESTION 12,What is the young womans name?,QUESTION 13,QUESTION 14,What is th

2、e babys name?,QUESTION 15,What is the name of the man lying down?,RELAX!,DS,DAPHNE DELPHI Half brother, half sister Greek Army, Spartan Army,BRISEIS IPHIGENIA HELEN,The face that launched a thousand ships,TROJAN WAR,The war continues Many men die Then, for the first time in 10 years, both sides agre

3、e to a truce Menelaus and Paris agree to fight each other Whoever wins gets Helen and the war is over,DUEL,Menelaus is stronger and grabs Paris by his helmet Swings him around Venus sees Causes the helmet to break Menelaus advances, ready to kill him Venus rescues Paris,BEDROOM,Venus carries Paris b

4、ack to his bedroom Then she goes to get Helen, who watched the fight from the wall Helen refuses to go to Paris, but Venus threatens her, so she gives in,HELEN,Helen is ashamed to be together with such a coward But Paris feels no shame, he says next time he will defeat Menelaus Then he tells her to

5、join him in bed,HECTOR,Some days later, Hector, Paris older brother and Troys greatest warrior, comes to their room He is looking for his wife and child Helen sees brave Hector and talks to him,PITIFUL,Helen tells him that she wished she died while still a child But since this is impossible she wish

6、es she had a better man than Paris Paris, she says is a coward, not like brave Hector She asks Hector to sit with her, but he refuses and continues to look for his family,HECTORS WIFE,He finds them on the city walls His wife begs him to stay and not fight Her father and 7 brothers have been killed b

7、y Achilles Her mother too is dead Now Hector is all of that to her,SHAME,Hector understands his wife But he would feel shame if he didnt fight Since he has always been brave, people expect it from him And he must do his best to protect Troy and his father, the king, and all the rest of his family,TR

8、OYS FATE,Then Hector talks of the day when Troy falls How his wife will become a slave How he could not bear to hear his wifes cries So he must fight and be killed so he doesnt have to witness such suffering,HECTORS SON,Hector reaches out for his son But the son is afraid of the man in armor He take

9、s off his helmet and kisses his son Prays to Zeus to allow his son to become a great warrior who brings honor to his mother Then he leaves for battle,DOES BIRTH ORDER SHAPE ONES PERSONALITY? WHAT IS THE OLDEST CHILD LIKE? WHAT IS THE YOUNGEST CHILD LIKE?,IO,Io was a priestess in a temple for Hera Ju

10、piter saw her and desired her So he visited her in her dreams and begged her to sleep with him Io refused,FATHER,But Zeus was so persistent that Io asked her father what to do Her father went to the Oracle He was told to take his daughter to the fields and leave her there,HERE COMES ZEUS,The father

11、follows the orders of the oracle Unhappy Io is left in the field Soon Zeus comes down from the sky He approaches Io ready to make love to her But Hera sees the two and rushes down to catch them,COW,Zeus knows that Hera is on her way, so he causes a great cloud to form around himself and Io Hera make

12、s the cloud disperse Then she sees Zeus and next to him a beautiful white cow,PRESENT,Hera compliments Zeus on his cow Then she asks him to give it to her as a present He tries to refuse, but she is persistent She takes the cow and orders her shepherd Argus, to watch it,MERCURY,Zeus wants to free Io

13、 from Hera and return her to her human form He asks Mercury, his clever son, to kill Argus and free Io,WHAT ARE THE NAMES OF THE PLANETS?,Mercury Venus Earth Mars Jupiter,Saturn Uranus Neptune Pluto,DAEDALUS,Originally from Athens Skilled crafstman Killed his assistant because the assistant invented

14、 the saw Was forced to leave Athens,MINOS,Daedalus came to work for Minos Built the wooden cow so that the queen could sleep with the cretan bull Then he built a maze where the queens child was kept,TIME TO GO,Became tired of life in Crete Minos thought he was too valuable Trapped him in a tower alo

15、ng with his son Icarus,ESCAPE,Daedalus created wings made of wax and feathers for himself and his son Before they left he gave his son some advice,ADVICE,Do not fly too low or the sea will soak the wings Do not fly too high or the sun will melt the wax Then they soared away from the prison and over

16、the ocean,ICARUS,Icarus at first followed his fathers advice But he soon became excited and wanted to test his wings He flew higher and higher Then the sun melted the wax and he fell into the ocean and drowned,SICILY,Daedalus flew on to Sicily The king there welcomed him Minos followed him Asked the

17、 king to thread a spiral shell Daedalus did it, so Minos knew Daedalus was there The kings daughters boiled Minos in water, killing him,HOW DO YOU THREAD A SPIRAL SHELL?,BACCHUS,God of wine He had dark, beautiful hair One day he was standing on the beach Wearing a purple cloak He looked like a rich

18、young prince,PIRATES,A passing ship of pirates saw him They wanted to ransom him They took him aboard their ship Tied him up with chains and ropes But these fell off,HELMSMAN,The helmsman saw this miracle and realized Bacchus was a god Said that the pirates should set him free But the captain laughe

19、d at him and ordered the sails to be hoisted,MIRACLE,Suddenly sweet wine flowed through the ship Then a grape vine spread along the mast and then all over the ship Grapes hung off the vine,LION,Bacchus turned himself into a lion The pirates were afraid and crowded around the helmsman for safety The

20、lion jumped at and then ate the captain The terrified pirates jumped into the sea,DOLPHINS,As soon as they touched the water they were transformed into dolphins Then Bacchus told the helmsman to remain calm for he was the god Bacchus He rewarded the helmsman,COMPARE AND CONTRAST EVE AND PANDORA,AEGE

21、US,King of Athens While away from his city he slept with a beautiful woman He told the woman if the child was a boy, she must bring him up without revealing his fathers identity,BOY,The child was a boy When he grew up his mother told him his father had left a sword and pair of sandals for him under

22、a heavy stone Once he could lift the stone he should take these things and meet his father in Athens,ON THE ROAD,On his way to Athens he encountered many bandits One bandit would seize his victims and tie them between two bent pine trees Then he would let the pine trees go, killing the person,CLEAN

23、MY FEET,Another bandit waited at a spot on the path on a cliff He forced passerbys to clean his feet and then he would kick them off the cliff to their death,STRETCHER,The worst bandit had a hammer, a saw and a bed He would kidnap people and make them lie in the bed If they were too short he would h

24、ammer them flat until they fit the bed If they were too long he would saw off pieces until they fit,ATHENS,After defeating all these bandits, Theseus arrived in Athens His reputation preceeded him and all the people talked about the brave young man who killed all those bandits,BINGO LIST,Iphigenia P

25、ersephone Io Pandora Argus Hera Hydra Nemean Lion Dolphins Wine Bacchus Vulcan,Helmsman Spiral Shell Pirates Daedalus Icarus Minos Hector Briseis Helen Poseidon Oracle of Delphi Croesus,Hind,Had golden horns Sacred to Diana/Artemis Hercules chased it for a year Then finally caught it,ARTEMIS,While Hercules was taking the hind back to his cousin Artemis stopped him He blamed his cousin and she let him continue if he promised to return the hind,BOAR,In Erymanthia (name not important) there was a dangerous boar Hercules chased it into deep