《希腊罗马神话》第8章Artemis.ppt

Artemis was often described as the daughter of Zeus and Leto, and the twin sister of Apollo. She was the Hellenic(希腊人的) goddess of the hunt, wild animals, wilderness, childbirth, virginity and young girls, bringing and relieving disease in women; she often was depicted as a huntress carrying a bow and arrows. Her attributes, bow, quiver and spear. The hind 母鹿，dog, bear and wild boar were sacred to her. In later Hellenistic times, she even assumed the ancient role of Eileithyia in aiding childbirth. According to Callimachus(卡里马库斯), at three years old, Artemis, while sitting on the knee of her father, Zeus, asked him to grant her 6 wishes: to remain always a virgin; to have many names to set her apart from her brother Apollo; to be the Light Bringer; to have a bow and arrow and a knee-length tunic(束腰短衣) so that she could hunt; to have sixty daughters of Oceanos, all nine years of age, to be her choir; and for twenty Nymphs as handmaidens 侍女，女仆 to watch her dogs and bow while she rested. She wished for no city dedicated to her, but to rule the mountains, and for the ability to help women in the pains of childbirth. Different Names of Artemis Diana Cynthia Phoebe The Calydonian [?k?li?d??ni?n] Boar Oeneus [?i:nju:s], king of Calydon [?k?li?d?n], didn’t offer sacrifice to Artemis The goddess was enraged at this neglect and sent a big wild boar to the fields of Calydon. Meleager [?meli?eid??:](梅利埃格), son of Oeneus [?i:nju:s],, invited all the famous heroes of the age to join him in hunting the boar, such as Jason, Castor and Pollux, Admetus [?d?mi:t?s](阿德墨托斯), Peleus [?peli?s] (珀琉斯), Theseus [??i:si?s] (特修斯), the fleet-footed(善跑的) Atalanta [??t??l?nt?] (阿塔兰忒) etc. the Calydonian boar hunt Meleager loved Atalanta and she was the first to wound the boar with her spear. After killing the boar, Meleager awarded the head skin of the boar to Atalanta but his uncles tried to take them from Atalanta Meleager killed his mother’s brothers and his mother, Althaea?[?l