Greek_Mythology古希腊神话英文介绍PPT

Heracles徐林：1.The Greek hero Heracles was son of Zeus and the mortal Alcmena, who is the Queen of Thebes. Being afraid of Hera ,the wife of Zeus,she named the baby Heracles which means "the honor of Hera".But Hera still caused the hero many troubles. While Heracles was just a baby in the cradle, she sent two snakes which the child killed, one in each hand. The great Prophet Tiresias predicted the future of the hero like this:When the little guy grow up,he would kill many monsters ,which will help him become the great Greek hero.3.When Heracles was still a child, he studied knowledge, music, the skill of fight and the usage of weapons from many heros,including the son of Apollo,Linos,who was killed by Heracles.For this reason,Heracles was punished to graze.When he was only eighteen he killed a lion,the head of which was made to a helmet,and for the rest of his life he would carry its skin.5.One day, Heracles was sitting at a crossroads and he saw two beautiful girls passing, the one was the Evil Godness and the other was the Virtue Godness.The Evil Goddess said to Heracles:"if you choose me to be your girlfriend,I'll lead you to the most comfortable path,wide and straight where he will enjoy life and wealth,because I can provide the right to enjoy everthing for my friend."The Virtue Goddess said to Heracles:"I'll lead you to a narrow and difficult path full of sharp stones and thorns, which will be crossed with difficulty, but in the end you would win the love and recognition."Hercules eventually followed the path of Virtue that gave him glory and recognition for his good deeds.马畅：There are many stories about Heracles. Thanks to him the gods defeated the giants, since they could only beat them if a mortal would fight with them. As a youth he defeated the enemies of Thebes, and as a reward,he married the princess of Thebes ,Megara, who born three babies for him.But Hera made the hero insane for a while, which made him murder his children.Ready to commit suicide after killing his children, he was told not to do so by the oracle in Delphi and to purify himself by serving the king of Mycenae and to do whatever the king told him.The most famous stories about Heracles are about his twelve labours.which will be introduced by my partner.ma chang.The first labour was to kill the Nemean lion, which he did with his bare hands. This frightened the king so much that he would not let Heracles inside Mycenae walls, the hero had to show his trophy outside the walls.The second labour was to fight the Hydra, an immortal monster with nine heads. If a head was cut off, two new would grow out in its place. Heracles defeated the Hydra with the help of his friend Iolaus. Each time a head would be cut off, Iolaus burnt the neck with fire, and so no new heads could grow out. When all the heads were off they buried the monster under a pile of stones. Heracles dipped his arrows in the Hydra's blood, making them lethal.The third labour was the capture of the the deer of Kyrenia, which had feet of brass and horns of gold, he chased it for a whole year and brought it alive to Eurystheus in Mycenae.The fourth labour was the capture of a terrible wild boar which lived on the mountain Erymanthos in North Arcadia.The fifth labour was to clean king Augeias' stable in Elia on the Peloponnese. The stable was huge and full of dung, and Heracles cleaned it by leading two rivers into it.The sixth labour was to kill the monster birds at Stymphalos (Stymphalia) in North Arcadia, which he did with the help of Athena.舒天泽：The seventh labour was to capture the Cretan bull, which either was the father of the Minotaur or the bull that had taken Europa on its back. Heracles brought it to Mycenae, but let it go, and it wandered off to Attica where Theseus later had to fight it.The eight labour was to capture king Diomedes of Trace's man eating horses. Heracles killed the king and captured the horses, and founded the city Abdera.The ninth labour was to get the girdle of the Amazon queen Hippolyte. He either defeated her or she gave it to him willingly.The tenth labour was to bring back the herd of the giant Eurytion on the island Erytheia. On his way to this western place by Oceanos, he made a passage through the Atlas mountains, setting up the pillars of Heracles - today's Gibraltar. He made it to the island in the cup of the sungod, and killed Eurytion and his dog Orthros. The herd he brought with him back to Greece.The eleventh labour was to bring back the golden apples of the Hesperides. According to one version he killed the dragon that guarded the apples and took them. According to another he went to Atlas, the father of the Hesperides. Heracles took the sky on his shoulders while Atlas went to get the apples, but when he returned he did not want to take over the burden of the sky again. Heracles then told him to hold the sky only for a short moment while he put a pillow on his shoulders, and so tricked Atlas into taking his position again.The twelfth, and final, labour was to bring back the three headed dog Cerberus, which guarded Hades, which he did. Cerberus was son of Typhon and Echidna, who had brothers the two headed Orthrus, the dog of Geryon and the Hydra.After these labours Heracles had made his penance, and he married Deianeira, whose father was Poseidon's son Antaeus.When Heracles killed the centaur Nessus for attacking his wife, the dying centaur told Deianeira something that would cause Heracles`s death like that,"You might save some of my blood and dip a tunic in it. if you ever needed to secure Heracles's love,all you had to do was to make him wear the tunic."When Heracles later wore it the centaur's blood turned out to be poison, and he could not get it off, slowly poisoning him to death and causing him great pain.Heracles then climbed the funeral pyre and was deified, marrying Hebe on Mt. Olympus,and he became the Hercules.。