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* Cronus Devouring One Of His Newly Born Sons * Cronus Devouring One Of His Sons: F. Goya (1820-23) Prado Museum, Madrid  * Birth of Athena from the Head of Zeus * The Birth of Athena in a Shower of Gold: Hephaestus (left) Split Zeus skull with his Axe.? Michael Maier (17h century)  * Birth of Athena from the Head of Zeus * Achilles’ Heel: Achilles To Be Washed in the Styx * Pandora and the Box of Fate: John Gibson (1790-1866) * Pandora Opens the Box * Homer and his guide: William Bouguereau(1825-1905): 1874. * “The Apotheosis of Homer” (Jean-Auguste Ingres, 1827,Louvre) * * Apollo and Daphne: A Failure of Love Mythology Greek/ Roman Greek/Roman Mythology What is Greek / Roman Mythology? Why learn it? What to learn, how to learn and how to test? WHAT? 欧洲文明的原始宗教：自然崇拜 人格化 希罗神话：故事集 希腊：各种族、开放、迁移 Zeus Hera Zeus: Dione (fraternal clan) Hera: Heracles (maternal clan) Zeus + Hera=merging of two prehistoric clans Records of G/R Mythology Homer Hesiod (10C~8C B.C) The Iliad The Odyssey Theogony Works and Days Greek tragic dramatists Aeschylus, 525-456 BC: Prometheus Bound, Agamemnon Sophocles, 496-406 BC: Oedipus Rex, Antigone Euripides, 480-406 BC: Medea, Hecuba Virgil Ovid (1C B.C) Aeneid Metamorphoses Homer as the Author of Two Epics The Iliad and Odyssey were probably composed in the late eighth century B.C. and most likely memorized and recited over ages, which were written down in a time of which the accurate date is unknown. ? The Value of Homer’s Epics A Major Source of GR Mythology The First Complete Narrative in the West A Canon of Greek / Western Civilization The Original Text in Greek/Translation Why learn it? --Allusions(典故) Idioms The apple of discord Any subject of disagreement and contention; the root of trouble Nixon’s Odyssey to China—Times The long and hard journey of the normalization of Sino-US relationship Achilles’ heel Thetis—