希腊神话论文英文

Greece Mythology Story, this book is full of wisdom and magic of colors. It narrated the story of deities and the legend of heroes. The god’s story involves the universe and humanity's origin, the production of the god and the other contents. In Greece mythology story, whether it is gods or deified persons (heroes), all of them have human emotions and human imprint in their thought. They have the same emotion of human, comparatively closer to the humanity. From the supremacy of Zeus, down to the small god who does not have the power and holds themselves aloof from the world’s authority, they are permitted all some person's emotion; they can develop the relationship with other gods even with the human beings. This is the most distinction from the Chinese mythology story. Although the Greek Mythology Story mainly eulogizes the deeds of heroes, I thought it also deeply expose and criticize the ugly of human nature.

In the introduction of this book, the author introduced twelve lord gods in the Olympics Mountain to us. Each of the twelve lord gods has their own family pedigree, and the perpendicular family system, they govern the nature and each kind of phenomenon and the thing of life, so as to form the Olympus god system and the entire phenomenon and things which take the Zeus as the centre. The legend of heroes origins from the worship to the ancestor, it was one kind of review of the ancient Greece person to the ancient times history. The legendary heroes mostly are the generations of gods and men or the demigod heroes. Their physical strength is excellent, and all of them are extraordinary brave, which manifested the heroic spirit and the tenacious will of human to conquer the nature, and they become the embodiment of people's collective strength and wisdom in ancient. The hero in the mythology has the bright superhuman strength, but they are not the god. Only few of them can ascend the heaven and became the god if they get the confirmation of Zeus through their work hard. So when I read this book in the first, I can not understand what it talks about, because it does not have any coherent in the front chapters, but the later chapters are especially caught my eyes. After I have read off this book, there are still some one give me a deeply impression.

The first is the father of gods: Zeus. Zeus to my first impression is that he is very

dissolute. Zeus is the father of all things, and he has a phoenix from the ashes, no one can hurt him, so he can love any girl he want, he betrayed his wife, but to lavish the love to the human and demigods daughter, and some times his love can not bring the happiness for others, on the contrary, it is a desert. For me, the most deeply impression is the story of Zeus and Io. Io is princess of the original Greek people, and she is very beautiful, when Zeus saw her at the first eyes, he loved her. Zeus hoped Io could become his wife and he used the sweet language to lure and tease Io. But the girl was very afraid, and she escaped the aspiration of Zeus, because Zeus is the dominator of all things, Io could not escape from the palm of Zeus, and at last, Io was caught by Zeus. Of course, all these things could not got away from the mother of gods：Hera’s eyes. Because of Zeus’s disloyalty, Hera’s suspicion was growing with each passing day. So when she knew her husband did the betray things again, she was very angry. In order to revenge her husband, Hera changed Io into a snow-white heifer, and set Argus with his hundred eyes to watch her, which made Io could not reunite with her family and could not went back her father’s site. The poor Io could to do nothing but to send out the voice of moo-moo. At last, Zeus was not really cruel enough to looked Io receives suffers, and then he begged Hera to put her.

From this story, I thought of our life time. First the power and wealthy can not bringing the true love for people. Even Zeus has the biggest power and wealthy, he still couldn’t win Io’s heart. Second the envy of women can destroy the reason of them, and made them cruel. Hera’s envy to Io made her forgot she was the mother of gods and her duty. Last, to be a god, his duty is to protect people from the disasters rather than bring the desert for people. If Zeus had not been pursued Io, Io could not suffered so much torments. Besides, I understand that the gods have their own desires and emotions.

Second is the great hero Heracles. Heracles was Zeus's illegitimate child. Because Hera does not know where Heracles comes from, she fed him and made he later owned immortality body. But after Hera knew the Hercules identity, she was regretting not to kill him. Because Heracles was the son of Zeus, he has the supernatural power and the strength which the average man not once had When