The ancient Greek civilization(古希腊文明)

The ancient Greek civilization(古希腊文明)
古希腊位于地中海东北部。

历史表明，克里特的征服者、特洛伊城的毁灭者——迈锡尼人，是希腊最早的居民之一。

但是古希腊文明的源头是爱琴文明,多年后爱琴人有了辉煌的米诺斯与迈锡尼文化。

随后便产生了璀璨的希腊文明。

Ancient Greece is located in the northeastern Mediterranean. History shows that, the conqueror of Crete, the destruction of Troy - the Mycenaeans, is the earliest inhabitants of greece. But,the source of the ancient Greek civilization is the Aegean civilization,many years later, Aegean has brilliant Minoan and Mycenaean culture.Then created bright Greek civilization.
古希腊文化作为古典文化代表，在西方乃至世界都占有极其重要地位，主要包括了古希腊战争，古希腊艺术和古希腊神话。

Ancient Greek culture as the representative of classical culture, in the western world has occupied a very important position, including the ancient Greek War, the ancient Greek art and ancient Greek mythology.
说真的，希腊卓有成就的文化领域与神话传说密切相关。

希腊神话传说不但是希腊人最早的文学，而且是希腊人最早的意识形态。

Actually,Greece successful cultural fields and myths and legends are closely related. Greek mythology is not only the
earliest literature, and it is the earliest ideology.
希腊神话主要包括神的故事和英雄传说两部分。

In Greek mythology, including God and the story of two heroes of legend。

希腊的神话故事，内容非常丰富生动，它是人类在童年时代充满天真纯朴、活泼浪漫的想象的结果，表现了古希腊人渴望了解自然、征服自然的美好愿望和顽强意志。

例如，有许多像普罗米修斯这样造福人类的伟大的神。

普罗米修斯把天火盗到人间，使人类有了划时代的进步。

希腊神话给古希腊人带来了多神崇拜,也带来了具有积极因素的共同信仰。

神话传说不但作为原始文化遗产被希腊人继承，而且极大地影响了后来希腊文化的兴盛。

The Greek myths, the content is very rich and vivid, it is the humanity in the childhood is full of simple, lively and romantic imagination results, showing the ancient Greeks desire to understand nature, conquer nature aspiration and tenacity. For example,many like Plo Michel J, also has the benefit of mankind's great god. Plo Michel J put the fire theft to the world, so that human beings have the epoch-making progress。

Greek mythology to the ancient Greeks brought God worship. the unity of God worship also brought with the active factors in the common belief. Myth not only as the original cultural heritage by the Greeks inheritance, but also greatly influenced
later Greek culture development.
英雄传说是对于远古的历史、社会生活和人向自然作斗争等事件的回忆。

英雄被当作神和人所生的后代，实际上是集体的力量和智慧的代表，体现了希腊人对的果敢精神。

The legend of heroes for the ancient history, social life and to struggle for natural events such as memory. Heroes are treated as the offspring of a God and man, is actually the collective strength and wisdom of the representatives, reflects the Greeks to the bold spirit.
然而希腊神话并不仅仅是希腊神话。

除了以上的文化价值，它还有更高的社会意义。

While the Greek mythology not only is a Greek myth. In addition to the above cultural values, it has more social significance.
近代，科学的发展也需要希腊文化的浇灌。

天文学的星座，高等数学的希腊符号等等，英文中大量借用希腊文来描绘科学现象，像仙女座一词的希腊文是安得洛玛达，意为仙女，是希腊神话中的国王的女儿。

Modern, scientific development also needs the Greek culture water. Astronomy constellation, higher mathematics Greek symbols and so on, English borrowed heavily from Greek to describe phenomena, like Andromeda is a Greek fairy Andeluomada, meaning in Greek mythology, is the daughter of
the king of Uranus。

在政治法律上，也有借用希腊神话的典故，而这在文学作品中最为常见。

好多西方的成语源自于古希腊，如斯芬克斯之谜比喻难题；德摩克利斯之剑比喻十分危险，还有俄尔浦斯的琴，丘比特之箭等等。

In politics and law, also borrowed from Greek mythology references, and this is most common in literary works. Many Western idioms originated in ancient Greece, so green mystery analogy problem; the sword of Damocles metaphor is very dangerous, and Eerpusi violins, Cupid's arrow and so on 总之，希腊神话对欧美的影响甚为深远
In summary, Greek mythology to Europe and the United States has a profound influence.。