English Vocabulary Originated from Greek and Roman Mythology

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English Vocabulary Originated from Greekand Roman Mythology1.Words Derived from Names of Gods:Titans:The Titans were a race of powerful deities that ruled during thelegendary Golden Age. Their role as Elder Gods is overthrown by apresent race of younger gods, the Olympians. The Titans wereassociated with various sexual concepts, some of which are simplyextrapolated from their names: ocean and fruitful earth, sun and moon, memory and natural law. The twelve first-generation Titans were ruled by the youngest, Kronos (Saturn), who overthrew their father, Ouranos ('Sky'), at the urgings of their mother, Gaia ('Earth').Titanic: having great magnitude, force, or powerCronos:In ancient Greek myths, Cronus envied the power of his father, the ruler of theuniverse, Ouranos. Ouranos drew the enmity of Cronus' mother, Gaia, whenhe hid the gigantic youngest children of Gaia, the hundred-armedHecatonchires and one-eyed Cyclopes, in Tartarus, so that they would not seethe light. Gaia created a great adamant sickle and gathered together Cronusand his brothers to persuade them to kill Ouranos. Only Cronus was willing todo the deed, so Gaia gave him the sickle and placed him in ambush. When Ouranos met with Gaia, Cronus attacked him with the sickle by cutting off his genitals, castrating him and casting the severed member into the sea. From the blood (or, by a few accounts, semen) that spilled out from Ouranos and fell upon the earth, the Gigantes, Erinyes, and Meliae were produced. From the member that was cast into the sea, Aphrodite later emerged.[3] For this, Ouranos threatened vengeance and called his sons titenes (according to Hesiod meaning "straining ones," the source of the word "titan", but this etymology is disputed) for overstepping their boundaries and daring to commit such an act.Painting by Peter Paul Rubens of Cronus devouring one of his children.Cronus learned from Gaia and Ouranos that he was destined to be overcome by his own son, just as he had overthrown hisfather. As a result, although he sired the gods Demeter, Hera, Hades, Hestia, and Poseidon by Rhea, he swallowed them all as soon as they were born to preempt the prophecy. When the sixth child, Zeus, was born Rhea sought Gaia to devise a plan to save them and to eventually get retribution on Cronus for his acts against his father and children. Rhea secretly gave birth to Zeus in Crete, and handed Cronus a stone wrapped in swaddling clothes, also known as the Omphalos Stone, which he promptly swallowed, thinking that it was his son.Rhea kept Zeus hidden in a cave on Mount Ida, Crete. According to some versions of the story, he was then raised by a goat named Amalthea, while a company of Kouretes, armored male dancers, shouted and clapped their hands to make enough noise to mask the baby's cries from Cronus. Other versions of the myth have Zeus raised by the nymph Adamanthea, who hid Zeus by dangling him by a rope from a tree so that he was suspended between the earth, the sea, and the sky, all of which were ruled by his father, Cronus.Once he had grown up, Zeus used a poison given to him by Gaia to force Cronus (Kronos or Kronus) to disgorge the contents of his stomach in reverse order: first the stone, which was set down at Pytho under the glens of Mount Parnassus to be a sign to mortal men, then the goat, and then his two brothers and three sisters. In other versions of the tale, Metis gave Cronus an emetic to force him to disgorge the children, or Zeus cut Cronus' stomach open. After freeing his siblings, Zeus released the Gigantes, the Hecatonchires, and the Cyclopes, who forged for him his thunderbolts. In a vast war called the Titanomachy, Zeus and his brothers and sisters, with the help of the Gigantes, Hecatonchires, and Cyclopes, overthrew Cronus and the other Titans. Afterwards, many of the Titans were confined in Tartarus. Some Titans were not banished to Tartarus. Atlas, Cronus, Epimetheus, Menoetius, Oceanus and Prometheus are examples of Titans who were not imprisoned in Tartarus following the Titanomachy. Gaia bore the monster Typhon to claim revenge for the imprisoned Titans, though Zeus was victorious. Accounts of the fate of Cronus after the Titanomachy differ. In Homeric and other texts he is imprisoned with the other Titans in Tartarus. In Orphic poems, he is imprisoned for eternity in the cave of Nyx. Pindar describes his release from Tartarus, where he is made King of Elysium by Zeus.chronic adj. 耗费时间的,慢性的chronicle n. 编年史,载入编年史chronology n. 年代学,年表chronologicalAtlas:Atlas was a Titan, one of the firstborn sons of Earth. Atlas made themistake of siding with his brother Cronus in a war against Zeus. Inpunishment, he was compelled to support the weight of the heavens bymeans of a pillar on his shoulders. He was temporarily relieved of thisburden by Heracles, who needed the Titan's aid in procuring the Golden Apples of the Hesperides. In connection with another heroic quest, Atlas divulged the whereabouts of the Graeae to Perseus.Atlas: one who bears a heavy burdenatlas: a: a bound collection of maps often including illustrations, informative tables, or textual matter b: a bound collection of tables, charts, or plates (16世纪地理学家麦卡脱把Atlas擎天图作为地图册的卷首插图,后人争相效仿)Ares (Mars in Roman myth): God of WarIn Greek mythology, Ares is the son of Zeus and Hera. Though often referredto as the Olympian god of warfare, he is more accurately the god of bloodlust,or slaughter personified: "Ares is apparently an ancient abstract nounmeaning throng of battle, war."martial adj. 与军事、战争有关的martial arts 武术martial law 军事管制,戒严令Hephaestus (Roman myth: Vulcan)He was the god of technology, blacksmiths, craftsmen, artisans, sculptors,metals, metallurgy, fire and volcanoes. Like other mythic smiths but unlikemost other gods, Hephaestus was lame, which gave him a grotesqueappearance in Greek eyes. He served as the blacksmith of the gods, and hewas worshipped in the manufacturing and industrial centers of Greece, particularly in Athens. The center of his cult was in Lemnos.Hephaestus's symbols are a smith's hammer, an anvil and a pair of tongs, although sometimes he is portrayed holding an axe.V olcano: 火山。