文档介绍：Classical Greek and Roman Mythology
Lecturer: Zhaofeng Wu (吴兆凤)
Rosalyn
wzfeng2008@
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Requirement and Evaluation
Requirement:
1. Punctual attendance (5 ’ time to call the roll)
2. Active participation in the class
3. Extensive reading after class
Evaluation:
1. Class attendance: 20%
2. Class participation: 30%
3. Term paper: 50%
Teaching Plan
Part I: The gods in mythology (2 classes)
Part II: Heroes in mythology (5 classes)
Part III: The Trojan War (3 classes)
Part IV: The Adventures of Odysseus (4 classes)
Final Exam: in Week 16
The 1st Class
Part I: The gods in mythology (众神)
1. The origin of the gods (众神的起源)
2. The Olympian Gods (奥林匹斯诸神)
3. The Titans and other gods and goddesses (提坦巨神与其他次要神祗)
The origin of the gods (众神的起源)
Chaos (混沌之神)
(the source of all things)
Terra (Gaea) (地母该亚)
(the earth)
Caelus (Uranus) (天神乌拉诺斯)
(天王星,太阳系第七大行星)
The 1st War
Cronus (克洛诺斯): the youngest and most important Titan (Saturn in Roman Myth 萨图恩;土星)
Caelus feared his children and prevented them from being born.
Cronus attacked him with a sickle (镰刀) and cut off his ans and threw them into the sea.
From the bloody foam (泡沫) Aphrodite, goddess of sexual love, beauty and fertility (多产), was born.
The 2nd War
Cronus then freed the other Titans from inside Terra, and became king of the sky.
He married his sister Ops (Rhea瑞亚), who bore him three daughters and three sons.
But he swallowed his first five children Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Hades, and Poseidon, immediately after their birth.
Zeus
However, when the sixth, Zeus, was born, Ops (Rhea) handed Cronus a stone wrapped in baby clothes, while hiding the baby on the island of Crete (克里特岛).
After he grew up, he returned to challenge his father.
By using a trick, he caused Cronus to vomit his children, who had grown into adults while inside their father.
The 2nd War
Zeus led his brothers and sisters in a war against Cronus and the other Titans.
They won the war, driving the Titans to Tartarus, a dark region