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1、s own coin） son of Aegeus （Aegean Sea）Robbers Sinis Ruffian who beset travelers on the road between Troezen and Athens. Sinis asked passing strangers to help him bend two pine trees to the ground. Once he had bent the trees, he tied his helpers wrists - one to each tree. When the strain became too m

2、uch, the trees snapped upright and scattered portions of anatomy in all directions. The hero Theseus turned the tables on Sinis by tying his wrists to a couple of bent pines, then letting nature and fatigue take their course.Sciron Bandit who made travelers stop to wash his feet, then kicked them ov

3、er a cliff while they were doing so. When they fell into the sea below, they were devoured by a man-eating turtle. Theseus turned the tables on Sciron.Procrustes （placing people on Procrustes ）A host who adjusted his guests to their bed. Procrustes, whose name means he who stretches, was arguably th

4、e most interesting of Theseuss challenges on the way to becoming a hero. He kept a house by the side of the road where he offered hospitality to passing strangers, who were invited in for a pleasant meal and a nights rest in his very special bed. Procrustes described it as having the unique property

5、 that its length exactly matched whomsoever lay down upon it. What Procrustes didnt volunteer was the method by which this one-size-fits-all was achieved, namely as soon as the guest lay down Procrustes went to work upon him, stretching him on the rack if he was too short for the bed and chopping of

6、f his legs if he was too long. Theseus turned the tables on Procrustes, fatally adjusting him to fit his own bed.Charon （CARE-on）. Spectral figure who ferried the dead across the river Styx, a bribe for whom persisted into modern times. The custom was to place a coin in the mouth of a corpse to secu

7、re its passage into Hades. Charon was not well disposed to passengers who were still living. Heracles had to muster up all his powers of intimidation when dispatched to bring back Cerberus to the upper world as one of his Labors. But Orpheus merely played a particularly enchanting strain on his lyre

8、 to induce Charon to pole him across the Styx.Daedalus （DEED-uh-lus or DED-uh-lus）. Builder of the Labyrinth for King Minos of Crete. Daedalus was a renowned craftsman and inventor. Before his time statues had their arms fixed stiffly to their sides - Daedalus gave them naturalistic poses and, some

9、say, the power of movement. Daedalus claimed to have invented the saw, but credit instead went to his nephew, whom Daedalus consequently murdered in a fit of professional jealousy. Because of this homicide, he fled his native Athens for the court of King Minos on the island of Crete. King Minos was

10、a notorious ingrate（恩负义者） One day when his son Glaucus turned up missing, he sought the aid of the seer Polyeidus, hoping to draw on the latters powers of prophesy and inner vision. Polyeidus was the same seer who had advised Bellerophon on how to tame the flying horse Pegasus. True to his reputatio

11、n, he soon found the boy, smothered headfirst in a huge jar of honey. In thanks for this service, Minos locked Polyeidus in a room with the dead boy, telling him that hed be released when he had returned Glaucus to life. Polyeidus, a visionary not a magician, hadnt an inkling what to do, until a sna

12、ke crawled into the room and died. Its mate slithered away and returned moments later with an herb, which it rubbed on the body. The first snake was brought back to life. Polyeidus applied the same herb to Glaucus and it did the trick. Reasonably expecting thanks and a reward, he was stunned to be t

13、old by Minos that he couldnt even go home again until he had taught Glaucus all his mystical powers. Resignedly, this he did. And in the end, with his freedom in sight, he bid King Minos farewell. One last thing, he said to young Glaucus. Spit into my mouth. With what distaste may be imagined, Glauc

14、us did as instructed - and instantly forgot everything he had been taught. King Minos behaved with similar ingratitude to Daedalus. In return for numerous services, notably the building of the Labyrinth, Minos had Daedalus imprisoned, either in his workroom or the Labyrinth itself. Admittedly, Daeda

15、lus had been compelled to design the Labyrinth in the first place owing to an indiscretion on his part. Minoss queen, Pasiphae, had fallen in love with a bull - through no fault of her own but in consequence of divine vengeance on Minos for - you guessed it - ingratitude to the gods. To help the que

16、en, Daedalus fashioned a lifelike hollow cow inside which Pasiphae could approach the bull. As a result she gave birth to the Minotaur, half-man, half-bull. The Labyrinth was invented by Daedalus in order to confine the Minotaur and, some say, Pasiphae and her accomplice. But there was no cooping up

17、 a genius like Daedalus. Having been locked up in his own architectural masterpiece, the great inventor knew better than to attempt the portal. Naturally Minos had placed this under heavy guard, knowing that if anyone could negotiate the twisting passages to the exit it was the creator of the Labyri

18、nth himself. So Daedalus gave thought to other means of escape. Minos had been kind enough to provide him with a room with a view, looking out over the Cretan landscape many stories below. The king was quite confident that his prisoner would not be leaping to his freedom. What he had overlooked was

19、the probability that the caged bird might fly. Indeed, Daedalus might well have been inspired by the soaring flight of the birds outside his window. It is certain that there were in fact birds in the vicinity because Daedalus managed to possess himself of a goodly supply of feathers. Like the great

20、Leonardo da Vinci many centuries yet in the future, he sketched out on his drafting table a winglike framework to which these feathers might be applied. Building a wooden lattice in the shape of an outsized wing and covering it with the feathers, he set to testing his prototype. It must have created

21、 quite a stir in the dank passages of the Labyrinth when Daedalus began waving this monumental feather duster around. The trials were important, though, for the ultimate invention would be freighted with the risk not just of his own life but that of his son Icarus as well. For Minos had wickedly imp

22、risoned the guiltless boy together with his father. At last the day was at hand to take to the skies. As he attached one pair of wings to Icarus and another to himself, Daedalus cautioned his son repeatedly. Remember all the trouble I had getting these feathers to stick? he said for the sixth or sev

23、enth time. The binding agent I resorted to is unstable, he pointed out as Icarus fidgeted impatiently. I had to heat it to make it work. If it gets heated again - by the sun, say - itll give way and the feathers will come loose. Do you understand, boy?To judge by Icaruss expression, he felt his fath

24、er was belaboring the point. As it turned out, he might have given his old dad more credit for a caution worth repeating. For as soon as they had leapt from the windowsill and caught an updraft which bore them high into the sky about Mount Juktas, Icarus became giddy with exhilaration. Now he knew w

25、hat a falcon felt like, dipping and soaring at will. Perhaps with some notion of going down in the annals of aviation with the first high-altitude record, he started flapping with a vengeance. And as he climbed into the thinner air aloft, the suns proximity began to work as Daedalus had anticipated.

26、 The feathers came loose, and Icarus plunged headlong into the sea, which - scant consolation - henceforth bore his name. PersonalityOedipus complex， （in Freudian Theory）the complex of emotions aroused in a young child by an unconscious sexual desire for the parent of the opposite sex.Helen, apple o

27、f discord Trojan, work like a Trojan Trojan horse, something intended to undermine or secretly overthrow an enemy or opponent a program designed to breach the security of a computer system while ostensibly performing an innocuous functionPandora, the greatness of her beauty enslaved the hearts of al

28、l who looked upon her. Pandora s Box, a process once begin generates many complicated problemsEpimetheus （afterthought）Prometheus （forethought）Only hope stayed within the mouth of the jar and never flew out. So men always have hope within their bosom. Out of clay Prometheus fashioned the first man,

29、to whom Athena gave soul and holy breath. Prometheus bestowed his creation the gift of fire, which raised all man above all animals.Zeus had him chained to a rock on Mount Caucasus, where a ravenous vulture ever tore at his liver which ever grew again. His period of ordeal was to be thirty thousands

30、 years. Prometheus faced his bitter fate firmly and never quailed before all the fiery majesty of Zeus. The two were at last reconciled by Heracles （Hercules）, who coming over in quest of the golden apples slew the eagle and set the benefactor of mankind free. The flood Deucalion and his wife Pyrrha

31、, childless couple, kind and pious and contented with life, son of Prometheus, warned by his father of the forthcoming flood, they had made themselves a huge chest. When the roaring deluge came the couple took refuge in it and floated for nine days until touched land again on Mount Parnassus.The onc

32、e hustling world presented an unnerving sight. It was now all death and devastation. Feeling lonely and insecure, the old couple prayed to the gods for help. An oracle instructed them to cast the bones of their mother about. They started to throw stones behind them. Midas （MYE-das）. Mythological possessor of the Midas touch, the power to transmute whatever he touched into gold. Midas was a king of Phrygia, a