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1、GreekMythology1ClassicalGreekMythologyTheJudgmentofParisWhystudyGreekmythology?Onereasonisthatthey’regreatstories.Butafarmoreimportantreasonforstudyingthemythsandpoetryoftheancientworldisthatithelpsusunderstandourownworldalittlebetter.Moderncivilizati
2、on,especiallyWesternCivilizationhasitsrootsintheancientworld,andthatworld’smythology(whichwastheirreligion)isapartofourownculturalinheritance.MuchofourownmodernliteraturecanbetracedbacktothetalesoftheGreeksandRomans.Wefindparallelseverywhere.Forexampl
3、e,manyofShakespeare’scharactersarebasedoncharactersthatappearedinancientGreekandRomantalesandplays.JamesJoyce’sgreatnovelUlyssesisbasedonHomer’sOdyssey(UlyssesistheRomanequivalentoftheGreekOdysseus).Indeed,weseethatmuchofwhatiswrit-ten;manyplots,andch
4、aracters,haveallbeendonebefore,over2,000yearsago.OursagabeginsintheeighthcenturyBCE.Poetstravelledfromcitytocityrecitingtheirpoemsandpassingthemontofuturegenerations.Sometimearound750BCElivedagreatpoetnamedHomer,sothestorygoes.Notmuchisknownabouthiman
5、dnothingofrecordsurvives.Inthosedaysmythsandtaleswerepassedonintheoraltradition.SomescholarsbelieveHomermayhavebeenawoman,orthathewasblind.Othersbelievethatthegreatpoemsattributedtohimwereac-tuallytheworksofmorethanoneauthor.Whateverthetruthmaybe,itha
6、sbeengenerallyagreedtoattributetheseworkstoapoetcalledHomer.Hisworksurvivesintwogreatepicpoems,TheIliadandTheOdyssey.GreekMythology2Mt.Olympus,homeofthegods.GreekMythology3HomerTheIliad:TheWrathofAchillesGreekMythology4AchillesAchillesisabouttokillPen
7、thesileia,theAmazonQueenatTroy:LargeAthenianamphora,c.540BC,foundatVulciinEtruria.OdysseusOdysseusandtheSirensGreekMythology5AgamemnonandMenelausParisandHelenGreekMythology6TheOdysseyOdysseusandPenelopeOdysseusandPenelopeTheCyclopsOdysseusandhismenbli
8、ndingthecyclops.GreekMythology7TheSirensCirceGreekMythology8OdysseusandCalypsoOdysseusandNausicaaGreekMythology9Athensca.400BCETheAcropolisTheAgora(marketplace)GreekMythology10GreekMythology11GreekMythology12Theater,Epidauros.Early3rdcenturyBC
