古希腊罗马神话与中国神话故事的异同点英语版

The Reading Report

In the holiday, I read the book “The Ancient Greek And Roman Mythology Story”. Comparing with Chinese mythology story, I find some common points and some differences.

First, I want to talk about some differences. The most obvious, “god”in the different culture has different characters. Since human since birth, man have continuously explored themselves with nature and the universe of the relationship. When they struggled with the nature, because of the low productivity, they had many questions, so they came down to the powerful nature. Then they generate “god”. In fact, throughout history, both east and west, “god” this group is very important. But, in the “god” the image of the mold, both in the east and in the west are accordance with their national human’s image to shape.

So the differences produce. For example, in the movies about the Greek mythology, gods also like the most westerns have white skin and curly hair, but in Chinese myth, gods have yellow skin, black eyes and straight hair.

The most different is that gods in the Greek myth are more hommization. They live like common people. They also have the seven emotions and six sensory pleasures. In their life, father probably loves his daughter and mother probably loves her son. The Greek gods in the moral aspects have nothing to praise, in the spirit and wisdom, they have no what superman place, they are being god just because their body are very satisfactory. But in east, gods don’t have any desire. Gods are gods, they have huge difference with the people ordinary. In the Greek myth, gods also have rights to love or hate, personality is distinct. Such as the father in heaven Zeus often chase the beautiful women in the mundane, and his wife Hera like a jealous heart strong woman persecute her rival in love. But in the east myth, through Qixiannv and Dongyong love each other, they can’t live together and they must suffer hardship.

Then, in the ancient Greek and Roman’s culture we are not difficult to find the word “open”. In many of the Greek myth, few gods wrapped up their body with clothes, both men and women most expose their breasts and chests, their clothes is

bold and unrestrained, no shy of facial expression. These just show the ancient Greeks’eager for free and open. While in China by traditional religion and the influence of the feudal system, in eastern culture of the fairy system this is almost impossible.

Finally, from the culture of different can be seen in the system. In the ancient Greek, the system is democratic, so we can see in the ancient Greek myth, although gods regard Zeus as the king of all the gods, they often deal with the affairs in the areas they are in charge of by themselves, they have the right, not necessary after the examination and approval, the gods would be on Olympus, to negotiate business and the vote, not by Zeus personal dictatorship. This has been performance of democratic centralism. But in China the system is emperor of led centralized. People can be converted into the god, to become a god, as long as through uniting the painstaking and to guide people to do good, accumulate more than a virtue.

The two different myth produced under different culture background also have some comman points. They both have gods and clear system.