1、Unit 3 Prometheus and Mankind,Prometheus:,What is the most important thing Prometheus did for mankind?,Creator of man:,Forethought: thought for the future. 深谋远虑对未来的准备或思虑 Afterthought:An idea, a response, that occurs to one after an event or a decision. 事后想法、反应,Creator of Mankind:,Prometheus: shaped
2、man out of clay Athena: breathed life into man Epimetheus: should provide faculities,Reasons of being punished?,Stealing fire; Tricking Zeus; Not revealing the prophesy to Zeus;,Thetis: a sea nymph. Chiron: Centaur, a tribe of half-horse men.,Prometheus being tortured,Promethean: Boldly creative; de
3、fiantly original. 勇于创造的勇于创造的；富有反抗精神的 the painters Promethean craft 画家的创造艺术,Unit 4 Pandoras Box,Unit 5 Five Ages of Mankind,The Golden Age,A time without laws; Life peaceful; care-free, labor-free, painless, but vegetarian; Everlasting youth until peaceful death in sleep protectors or helpers of late
4、r generations after death;( Ending with Pandoras creation),The Silver Age,Labour: beginning of agriculture A full 100 years childhood; Ungrateful to creators blessed spirits of the Underwold;,The Bronze Age,Age, agriculture and manufacture, a hunting and warring age; Created from ash tree; Everythin
5、g bronze; Great warriors pursuing brutal, violent conflicts; Spirits went down to Hell ;,The Heroic Age,Semi-gods; A nobler race, “better and more just” ; Heroes who fought at Troy or Thebes; Spirits went to the Happy Isles/the Islands of the Blessed （极乐岛）,Cadmus卡德摩斯,A Phoenician prince who killed a
6、 dragon and sowed its teeth, from which sprang up an army of men who fought one another until only five survived. With these five men Cadmus founded the city of Thebes(底比斯城). 腓尼基王子，卡德摩斯，建立了底比斯城。,AIDOS,AIDOS (or Aedos) was the goddess of modesty, reverence and respect. She was a companion of the godd
7、ess Nemesis.Aidos, as a quality, was that feeling of reverence or shame which restrains men from wrong;,NEMESIS 惩罚女神,NEMESIS was the goddess of indignation against evil deeds, and retribution for undeserved good fortune.,Iron Age,All evils and corruptions; Toil for survival and suffer endless misery
8、;,Unit 6 The Deluge,Parnassus:,A mountain, about 2,458 m (8,060 ft) high, of central Greece. In ancient times it was sacred to Apollo, Dionysus, and the Muses. Delphi was at the foot of the mountain. 巴那塞斯山希腊中部一座海拔约2,458米（8,060英尺）的山，古时候是阿波罗，狄俄尼索和缪斯的圣地，特尔裴就在此山脚下,Triton,TRITON was a fish-tailed sea god
9、, the son and herald of Poseidon. He stilled the waves with the blow of a conch-shell trumpet.,Unit7 Zeus and Hera,Zeus (Roman: Jupiter),Son of Cronus and Rhea; Ruler of heaven and earth; Preserver of order and justice; A complex figure;,Hera (Roman: Juno),known as Juno in Roman mythology; the godde
10、ss of married women and childbirth; The peacock are sacred to her; Iris, the Goddess of Rainbow, was her attendant and messenger; Hera is portrayed as being majestic and solemn.,Thetis,One of the 50 Nereids(海中女神）, mother of Achilles.塞蒂斯, 海中女神之一，是阿喀琉斯的母亲,Briareus,was one of the Hecatonchires, the hun
11、dred-handed ones with fifty heads. His mother, Gaea, was the most ancient Greek goddess and was known as mother earth. He also had two brothers. One of his brothers was Gyges, and the other was Cottus.,Laomedon:,The founder and first king of Troy and father of Priam. Priam: The father of Paris, Hect
12、or, and king of Troy, who was killed when his city fell to the Greeks.,Unit 8 Zeus and Io,Inachus,The personified deity of the river of that name in Greece. He is the son of Oceanus.,Zeus and Io,Argus: was a hundred-eyed giant; also called Argus All-Seeing;All-seeing reflecting that he was a very ef
13、fective watchman, as only a few of the eyes would sleep at a time; there were always eyes still awake. Argus was Heras servant.,Argus Guarding the Heifer (Io),Hermes (Roman: Mercury),the son of Zeus and the nymph Maia; the messenger of the gods; Hermes is the god of shepherds, travellers, merchants,
14、 oratory, and thieves; known for his cunning and shrewdness.,Satyr 半人半兽的森林之神,Gods of the woods; Attenants of Dionysus; They looked like men, but had legs and feet of goats, with short horns on their heads; drank and danced and chased the nymphs ;,Allusion,It was a slow smile, starting and sometimes
15、ending in the eyes; it was very sensual, neither cruel nor kindly, but suggested rather the inhuman glee of the satyr.- Moon and Sixpence by Maugham,Artemis (Roman: Diana),The virgin goddess of the hunt and the moon; Twin sister of Apollo.,Pan,A satyr; Son of Hermes; He could inspire irrational terr
16、or in humans, and the word panic comes from his name.,Pan and Syrinx,syrinx or panpipe:潘神箫, 潘之笛，排萧,Peacock is sacred to Hera,Unit 9 Zeus and Europa,Agenor:,Agenor was a son of Poseidon and Libya. He became king of Phoenicia(腓尼基）. He married Telephassa who bore him Europa, Cadmus, Phoenix and Cilix.,
17、Zeus and Europa,When Europa disappeared on the back of the Bull, Agenor sent out his sons in search of her, ordering them not to return until they had found their sister.,Europas brothers,Cilix, ended up in Cilicia in Asia Minor, a region called after him, where he became king after giving up the se
18、arch.Cadmus, went with his mother，founded the city of Thebes.Phoenix, another brother, set out for Africa, and remained there.,Callisto,Callisto was a nymph who was a follower of the goddess of the hunt, Artemis. Young women who were devoted to the goddess hunted with her regularly, and remained vir
19、gins, like Artemis herself. Callisto had upheld these ideals faithfully, and she quickly became Artemis favorite.,Callisto caught the eye of Zeus. Knowing that the maiden had taken a vow of chastity, Zeus resorted to deception to get at Callisto. He came to her disguised as Artemis, and the young hu
20、ntress let down her guard. Seizing the opportunity Zeus raped her.,Callisto became pregnant. The child that Callisto had by Zeus was named Arcas, and he grew up to be a fine hunter himself.,Great and Little Bear Constellations,Great Bear,Ursa Major is one of the most famous constellations. It is also called the Great Bear.,Little Bear,Ursa Minor is known as the Little Dipper and Little Bear; The tail of the Ursa Minor ends with the North Star, Polaris.,
