延 安大学外国语学院古希腊罗马神话赏析课件 第五讲.pptVIP

* * LOGO Athena Athena (Minerva), the goddess of wisdom, was the daughter of Jupiter (Zeus). She was said to have leaped forth from his brain, mature, and in complete armor. She presided over the useful and ornamental arts, both those of men---agriculture and navigation---and those of women ---spinning, weaving, and needle- work. Athena Ares She was also a warlike divinity; but it was defen- sive war only that she patronized, and she had no sympathy with Ares’s (Mars) savage love of violence and bloodshed. Athena Poseidon Athens was her chosen seat, her own city, awarded to her as the prize of a contest with Poseidon (Neptune), who also aspired to it. The tale ran that in the reign of Cecrops, the first king of Athens, the two deities contended for the possession of the city. The gods decreed that it should be awarded to that one who produced the gift most useful to mortals. Neptune gave the horse; Minerva produced the olive. The gods gave judgment that the olive was the more useful of the two, and awarded the city to the goddess; and it was named after her, Athens. Athena Teiresias Athena, though as modest as Artemis, is far more generous. When Teiresias, one day, accidentally surprised her in a bath, she laid her hands over his eyes and blinded him, but gave him inward sight by way of compensation. 希腊神话中著名的盲眼先知。他本身既当过男人也当过女人（看到两条蛇在交配，他用棍子打公蛇，就被变成了女人，7年后又用此方法变回男人. FOR his blindness-note 2 ---Who enjoys more in sexual intercourse, men or women? ---Women take the 90%, men the rest. 赫拉把他变瞎，宙斯作为弥补给了他未卜先知 （inward sight）的能力，后来他用这能力告 诉俄迪浦斯(Oedipus)他会轼父娶母。 There was a famous contest between Athena and a mortal girl who dared to come in competition with her. That mortal was Arachne, a maiden who had attained such skill in the arts of weaving and embroidery that the nymphs themselves would leave their groves and fountains to come and gaze upon her work. It was not only beautiful when it was done, but beautiful also in t