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希腊神英语名罗马名对照表

希腊神英语名罗马名对照表
希腊神英语名罗马名对照表

The Olympians

These gods are the most important and powerful gods. The home of these gods was Mount Olympus, except for Hades who is only allowed on Olympus once a year. He lives in the Underworld the rest of the time.

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Aφροδ?τη (Aphroditē) Aphrodite Venus

Goddess of love and beauty, married to Hephaestus. Ares

is her lover and she loves him as well. Eros is her son.

Aπ?λλων (Apollōn) Apollo Apollo

God of the Sun, music, archery, poetry, healing, and

prophecy. He is Artemis' twin brother, and Son to Zeus.

?ρη? (Arēs) Ares Mars God of war, murder and bloodshed. Brother to Hephaestus, and is the lover of Aphrodite and son of Zeus.

?ρτεμι? (Artemis) Artemis Diana

Goddess of the hunt, wilderness, wild animals,especially

deer and fawns, night, and the moon. Apollo is her twin

brother. Artemis is the virgin goddess and is also

protector of maidens.

Αθην? (Athēna) Athena Minerva

Goddess of wisdom, weaving, the arts, warfare and

reason. She is the favourite daughter of Zeus.

Δ?μητρα (Dēmētra) Demeter Ceres

Goddess of fertility, grain and harvest. Demeter is a sister

of Zeus. Her daughter is Persephone, Hades' wife.

Δι?νυσο? (Dionysus) Dionysus Bacchus

God of wine, parties/festivals, madness and merriment.

He is a son of Zeus.

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(Hades)

Hades Pluto God of the Underworld. Brother of Poseidon and Zeus.

?φαιστο? (Hēphaistos) Hephaestus Vulcan

God of fire and the forge. Ugly son of Hera and Zeus is

his father in some accounts. Married to Aphrodite, but

she does not love him because he is deformed and as a

result is cheating on him with Ares.

?ρα (Hēra) Hera Juno Goddess of marriage, women and childbirth. Zeus' wife and sister.

Ερμ?? (Hērmēs) Hermes Mercury

God of flight, thieves, commerce and travellers.

Messenger of the gods. Zeus's son by Titanness.

Poseidon Poseidon Neptune God of the sea, . His sons are the Heavenly Tripplets, Polyphemus and Triton and the Cyclops. His weapon is a

trident by which he can stir up the seas, wreck ships and drown sailors.

Ζε?? (Zeus) Zeus Jupiter The father of all fathers, the wisdom and light. The king of the gods after killing his father, Kronos, who ate Zeus's siblings but their mother managed to save baby Zeus. When Zeus grew up, he fed Kronos a mixture of wine and mustard to make him vomit his immortal siblings who had grown up in Kronos's stomach. Zeus is the ruler of Mount Olympus and the god of the sky, thunder and lightning. Though he is married more than once, his real queen is Hera. Zeus is the father of Hermes, Hephaestus, Hercules, Dionysus, Athena, Ares,

希腊罗马神话之Hera简介英文版

HERA (JUNO). Hera, the eldest daughter of Cronus and Rhea, was born at Samos, or, according to some accounts, at Argos, and was reared by the sea-divinities Oceanus and Tethys, who were models of conjugal fidelity. She was the principal wife of Zeus, and, as queen of heaven, participated in the honours paid to him, but her dominion only extended over the air (the lower aerial regions). Hera appears to be the sublime embodiment of strict matronly virtue, and is on that account the protectress of purity and married women. Faultless herself in her fidelity as a wife, she is essentially the type of the sanctity of the marriage tie, and holds in abhorrence any violation of its obligations. So strongly was she imbued with this hatred of any immorality, that, finding herself so often called upon to punish the failings of both gods and men in this respect, she became jealous, harsh, and vindictive. Her exalted position as the wife of the supreme deity, combined with her extreme beauty, caused her to become exceedingly vain, and she consequently resented with great severity any infringement on her rights as queen of heaven, or any apparent slight on her personal appearance. The following story will signally illustrate how ready she was to resent any slight offered to her. At the marriage of the sea-nymph Thetis with a mortal called Peleus, all the gods and goddesses were present, except Eris (the goddess of Discord). Indignant at not being invited, she determined to cause dissension in the assembly, and for this purpose threw into the midst of the guests a golden apple with the inscription on it "For the Fairest." Now, as all the goddesses were extremely beautiful, each claimed the apple; but at length, the rest having relinquished their pretensions, the number of candidates was reduced to three, Hera, Athene, and Aphrodite, who agreed to appeal to Paris for a settlement of this delicate question, he being noted for the wisdom he had displayed in his judgment upon several occasions. Paris was the son of Priam, king of Troy, who, ignorant of his noble birth, was at this time feeding his flocks on Mount Ida, in Phrygia. Hermes, as messenger of the gods, conducted the three rival beauties to the young shepherd, and with breathless anxiety they awaited his decision. Each fair candidate endeavoured to secure his favour by the most tempting offers. Hera promised him extensive dominions; Athene, martial fame and glory; and Aphrodite, the loveliest woman in the world. But whether he really considered Aphrodite the fairest of the three, or preferred a beautiful wife to fame and power, we cannot tell; all we know is that to her he awarded the golden apple, and she became ever after universally acknowledged as the goddess of beauty. Hera, having fully expected that Paris would give her the preference, was so indignant that she never forgave him, and not only persecuted him, but all the family of Priam, whose dreadful sufferings and misfortunes during the Trojan war were attributed to her influence. In fact, she carried her animosity to such an extent that it was often the cause of domestic disagreements between herself and Zeus, who espoused the cause of the Trojans. Among the many stories of these frequent quarrels there is one connected with Heracles, the favourite son of Zeus, which is as follows:--Hera having raised a storm at sea in order to drive him out of his course, Zeus became so angry that he hung her in the clouds by a golden chain, and attached heavy anvils to her feet. Her son Hephaestus tried to release his mother from her humiliating position, for which Zeus threw him out of heaven, and his leg was broken by the fall.

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God and Goddess众神 Gaea The goddess of the earth who bore and married Uranus and was the mother of the Titans and the Cyclopes. 大地女神盖亚,嫁给了天神乌拉诺斯,是泰坦诸神和独眼巨人库克罗普斯的母亲。 Uranus The eariest supreme god, a personification of the sky who was the son and consort of Gaea and the father of the Cyclopes and Titans. 乌拉诺斯,最早的主神,是天的化身,大地女神的儿子和配偶,泰坦诸神和库克罗普斯的父亲。 Cyclops Any of the three one-eyed Titans who forged thunderbolts for Zeus. 库克罗普斯:帮助宙斯制造雷电的三个独眼泰坦神之一。 Titan Any of a family of giants, the children of Uranus and Gaea who sought to rule heaven and were overthrown and supplanted by the family of Zeus. 泰坦:巨人家庭成员,是乌拉诺斯和盖亚的子女,他们试图统治天国,但被宙斯家庭推翻并取代。 Hyperion A Titan, the son of Gaea and Uranus and the fathter of Helios,Selene,Eos. 许珀里翁:泰坦神,盖亚和乌拉诺斯之子,是太阳神赫利俄斯、月之神塞勒涅和黎明女神厄俄斯的父亲。 Metis A Titan, the mother of Athena. 墨提斯:泰坦神,雅典娜的母亲。 Mnemosyne A Titan, the goddess of memory, the mother of the Muses. 摩涅莫绪涅:泰坦神,记忆女神,缪斯的母亲。 Rhea A Titan, the sister and wife of Cronus and the mother of Demeter, Hades, Hera, Hestia, Poseidon and Zeus. 瑞亚:克洛诺斯的妹妹和妻子,是收获女神得墨忒耳、冥神哈德斯、女主神赫拉、女灶神赫斯提、海神波塞冬和宙斯的母亲。 Cronus A Titan who ruled the universe until dethroned by his son Zeus. 克洛诺斯:泰坦神,在被他独生子宙斯废黜前一直统治着宇宙。 Oceanus A Titan god of the outer sea encircling the earth and the father of the Oceanides and the river gods. 俄刻阿诺斯:泰坦神,所有海洋女神和河神之父。海洋之神 Zeus

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