11-希腊神话-阿尔戈斯人课件.ppt

Greek mythology is a group of oral stories of ancient Greece. It can be divided into two parts: 1) stories about gods 2) the heroic tales;1) stories about gods;The Characteristics:;2) the heroic tales;;;;Argos (middle Greece)– Perseus Mycenae (south Greece)– Heracles Iolcus (north Greece)– Jason Crete (an island)– Minos Attica (the territory of Athens)– Theseus …;To the Heroic Age are ascribed three great military events: the Theban War the Argonautic Expedition the Trojan War ;Chapter7 Stories of Argos;Today’s content:;I. Danaus and His Fifty Daughters;Zeus and Io;After Hermes killed Argos, who watched over the little heifer, Hera sent the mother of all gad-flys to sting the still bovine Io. This pushed her near madness, trying to escape she wandered the world. ;She eventually reached the Nile where Zeus did restore her to human form. There, she bore?Epaphus, who later became the king of Egypt. Some of her descendants remained in Egypt and ruled there as kings. One of these Egyptian kings had two sons, Aegyptus and Danaus. ;伊量炮俄喧毡淡喝觅窿芹贤馋痘寨旦讨钢澳敌楚商愉毗厨涝造谭汽狠卖舆11-希腊神话-阿尔戈斯人课件11-希腊神话-阿尔戈斯人课件;Les Danaides, Jan Frans De Boever, 1927 ;Others say that Lynceus killed them all to avenge his brothers, and they were punished in Hades by being compelled eternally to carry water in leaky vessels, or through jugs to a leaky vessel.;Cask of Danaides;The Danaides Schmidt, Martin Johann?(1718-1801);II. Danae and Her Son;Titian?(1490–1576) ;But Zeus came to her in the form of golden rain, and impregnated her. Soon after, their child Perseus was born. ;Unwilling to provoke the wrath of the gods by killing his offspring, Acrisius cast Dana? and Perseus into the sea in a wooden chest. The sea was calmed by?Poseidon?and at the request of Zeus the pair survived. They were washed ashore on the island of?Seriphus, where they were taken in by?Dictys?- the brother of King?Polydectes?- who raised Perseus to manhood. ;III. The Hero Perseus;The fishermans foster son was invited. He asked Polyde