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希腊罗马神话复习
一．单选（课文）
10
分
二．
判断（课文）
10
分
三．表格（默写）
20
分
Greek
Aphrodite
Roman
Venus
Role
in Mythology
Goddess of beauty, sexual
desire. (RM: goddess of
gardens and fields .)
Apollo
Apollo
God of
prophecy,medicine and
archery(late
Greek/RM:god of
sun)
Ares
Artemis
Mars
Diana
God of
war
Goddess of the hunt(late
Greek/RM:goddess of
moon)
Asclepius
Athena
Aesculapius
Minerva
God of medicine
Goddess of
arts and crafts
and war;helper of
heroes(late Greek/Rm:
goddess of wisdom)
Cronus
Sarturn
God of the sky;ruler
of the
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Titans(RM:goddess of
agriculture)
Demeter
Dionysus
Ceres
Bacchus
Goddess of grain
God of wine and
vegetation
Eros
Gaea
Hades
Cupid
Tellus
Pluto
God of love
Mother Earth
God of the
underworld;
lord of the dead
Hephaestus
Vulcan
God of fire; blacksmith of
the gods
Hera
Juno
Goddess of marriage and
childbirth;protector of
married women; queen of
the
gods
Hermes
Mercury
Messengers of the gods;
protector of travelers,
thieves, and merchants
Hestia
Poseidon
Vesta
Neptune
Guardian of the home
God of
the sea and
earthquakes
Rhea
Ops
Wife of Cronus/Sarturn;
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Mother
Goddess
Uranus
Uranus
God of the sky; father of
the Titans
Zeus
四．名词解释（课后）
20
分
C1
1.
delphic
: It
relates to means ambiguous.
2.
Olypian
: It
relates to Olympian means that some one is like a
god,especially by being calm and not
concerned about ordinary things.
3.
martial
: It
relates to means something connected with war and
fighting.
4.
nemesis
: It
relates to means a punishment that is deserved
and cannot
be avoided.
5.
titanic
:I t
relates to means something big ,strong and
powerful.
C2
1.
Junoesque
:It
relates to means someone is elegant and beautiful
like Juno.
2
.Argus-
eyed
:It relates to means someone is
watchful and alert.
3.
satyr/
satyriasis
:It relates to means someone
that has an abnormally
intense sexual
desire in men.
4.
mercurial
:It
relates to means having feelings that change
suddenly
and without warning.
Jupiter
Ruler of the gods
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C4
1.
chaotic
:It
relates to means messy and disorder.
2
.
Pandora
’
s
box
:It relates to Pandora. It means the
root of troubles.
3.
Promethean
:It
relates to means a person who resembles
Prometheus.
C6
1.
Dionysiac
:It
relates to means Sensuality, debauchery, and
revelry.
C7
1.
Midas
’
/ass
’
s ears
:It relates to
means A secret that cannot be also
menas someone is shallow and
uninformed.
2.
Midas/the
golden touch
:It relates to means
touching a stone and
turning it into
gold.
3.
cut the Gordian
knot
:It relates to means solving a
complex problem
with a bold strike.
C8
1.
cereal
:It
relates to means grains.
2.
aureole
:It
relates to means a bright circle of light.
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C9
1.
Charon
’
s boat/ferry
:It
relates to means some one is going to die.
2.
cross the
Styx
:It means some one is going to die.
C12
1.
gain/reap/win
（
one
’
s
）
laurels
: It relates to Daphne. It means gaining
one
’
s
honors.
2.
Look to
one
’
s laurels
:It
relates to means to work hard in order not to
lose the achievement.
3.
rest/repose/retire/sit(back)on
one
’
s laurels
: It
relates to means to
satisfy with what
you have achieved and stop trying.
4.
a Noble/poet
laureate
:It relates to means to be a
noble price winner.
C13
1.
cupidity
: It
relates to means a very strong desire for
something.
2.
erotic
:It
relates to means sexual excitement.
C14
1.
Aphrodite
’
s girdle
:It
relates to means unlimited female sexuality.
2.
adonis
:It
relates to means some one is a handsome young
man.
C16
*
*
1.
Narcissism
:It
relates to means the habit of always thinking
about
yourself and admiring yourself.
C17
ion
effect
:It relates to Pygmalion. It is a
phenomenon in which the
greater the
expectation placed upon people ,the better they
perform.
C18
1.
atlantean
:It
relates to Atalanta. It means strong ,powerful and
gigantic.
2.
Mount
one
’
s Pegasus
: It
relates to means to write a poem.
3.
a chimera in
one
’
s brain
: It
relates to means the fantasy in
one
’
s mind.
C20
1.
the choice
of Heracles
: It relates to means some
one is in a dilemma.
2.
Cleanse the Augean
Stable
:It relates to means to remove
something
totally.
3.
Herculean
effort
:It relates to means great
effort.
C21
1.
sow
dragon
’
s teeth
:
It means to provoke war by spreading dispute;or
cultivate
warriors or monster.
2.
a Cadmean/Pyrrhic
victory
:It relates to means a victory
that comes at
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a great cost.
C22
1.
sphinx
riddle
:It relates to means a puzzle
which is very difficult to solve.
C24
1.
the apple
of discord
: It means the root of the
trouble and any subject of possible
of
contention or disagreement.
2.
Achilles
’
heel
:I
t relates to means a weak point in something that
is
otherwise perfect.
3.
hector
: It
relates to means to
intimidate or
dominate in a blustering way.
4.
Achilles and
Patroclus
:It relates to Achilles and
means male
friendship, a heroic
friendship.
5.
Fight like a
Trojan
:It means to fight with great
determination.
6.
Sulky like
Achilles in his tent
: It relates to
means sulky.
7.
a Trojan
horse
:It means the hidden danger.
8.
Myrmidon
: It
means a faithful follower who carries out orders
without question.
9.
Helen of
Trojan
:It relates to means the root of
war; a beauty who ruins
her country;a
terrible disaster brought by somebody or something
you like best.
10.
Greek
gift
:It means a gift with evil purpose
of the enemy; a gift to murder.
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五．简答题
20
分
C1
1.
What did the
ancient Greeks know about their world?
The Greeks believed the
earth to be flat and circular,their own country
occupying
the middle of it,the central
point being either Mount Olympus,The earth is
divided
into two equal parts by the
the earth flowed the River Ocean.
which place were mortals favored by
the gods taken when they died?
The Aethiopians.
3.
How did Zeus divide the
rule of the world with his brother?
Zeus
’
s portion
was the heavens,Poseidon
’
s
the ocean and Hades
’
s the
realms of
the dead.
was Venus married off to Vulcan?
Jupiter gave her to Vulcan,
in gratitude for the service he had rendered in
forging
thunderbolts.
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did the Fates
mete out human destiny?
The
three goddesses were assigned distinct task:Clotho
spun the
“
thread
”
of
human
fate,Lachesis dispensed it and Atropos cut it.
C2
was
Zeus
’
usual way
of hiding his scandals?
He
raised a cloud to hide some of his doings that
would not bear the light and He
turned
the girl into an animal.
did the musical instrument
“
panpipe
”
come
into being?
Pan fell in
love with A nymph called Syrinx,who was a faithful
worshipper of
chased her to the bank
of river .With the water
nymph
’
s help,Syrinx was
turned into was so sad and he made an
instrument with the reeds,which
called
that is the panpipe.
can
you account for Zeus
’
s
promiscuity?
The
promiscuity of Zeus serves more than entertaining
is out of political
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have a powerful ability to reproduce
in order to reproduce more
offspring, .
For most of the people in the world flows his
blood, is one of the
methods can have
more faithful the number of the faithful follows
decide whether his regime is firm.
C4
was the
direct cause of Prometheus
’
obtaining fire for man?
When Epimetheus created man ,he had
nothing left for him.
attitude toward women is shown through the story
of Pandora?
The story shows
the ancient Greeks thought women were inferior and
affiliated to
men,and they were the
root evil and trouble.
age
of man applies to our own age?Please elaborate.
I think we are in the Iron
work day and night and man
’
s
character is
more complex,though mixed
with kindness, but more wants to rule
no longer trust each d people do not love each
are regarded as ss and justice are no
longer seen as the
norm of conduct, but
merely violence.
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is the first woman often
described as a
“
lovely
evil
”
?How does she
compare with Eve in the Book of
Genesis?
Pandora is
described as a
“
lovely
evil
”
because she
was the most beautiful and
sweetest
woman,but she opened box and made many evil things
free.
Both Pandora and Eve are are
also described as the root of troubles
to take the blame for the male they
were created out of different
a was
created as the cost of Prometheus stealing the
fire for
symbolizes a great temptation
and human is inferior and
affiliated
to the man and just like a slave and she was
created to help man.
did
Zeus try to withhold fire from human
beings?
Because
fire is a symbol for technology and civilization.
A basic distinction in myth between raw
& cooked and wild & civilized.
As a
revenge for Prometheus' earlier theft of the
finest sacrificial portions.
By
withholding fire, Zeus makes the division of the
sacrifice impracticable. The
hu
miliation of Zeus prompted him to
take the extreme measure of withholding fire
fr
om mankind, without which man would
soon be little more than animals.
C6
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