Greek Mythology大事件.docx

1、Greek Mythology大事件THE BATTLE OF ZEUS & TYPHOEUSHesiod, Theogony 820 ff (trans. Evelyn-White) (Greek epic C8th or C7th B.C.) :Now after Zeus had driven the Titanes out of heaven, gigantic Gaia (Earth), in love with Tartaros (the Pit), by means of golden Aphrodite, bore the youngest of her children, T

2、yphoeus; the hands and arms of him are mighty, and have work in them, and the feet of the powerful god were tireless, and up from his shoulders there grew a hundred snake heads, those of a dreaded drakon, and the heads licked with dark tongues, and from the eyes on the inhuman heads fire glittered f

3、rom under the eyelids: from all his heads fire flared from his eyes glancing; and inside each one of these horrible heads there were voices that threw out every sort of horrible sound, for sometimes it was speech such as the gods could understand, but at other times, the sound of a bellowing bull, p

4、roud-eyed and furious beyond holding, or again like a lion shameless in cruelty, or again it was like the barking of dogs, a wonder to listen to, or again he would whistle so the tall mountains re-echoed to it.What Typhon looks like,And now that day there would have been done a thing past mending, a

5、nd he, Typhoeus, would have been master of gods and of mortals, had not Zeus the father of gods and men been sharp to perceive it and gave a hard, heavy clap of thunder, so that the earth gave grisl(terrible) reverberation(respond), and the wide heaven above, and the sea, and the streams of Okeanos,

6、 and the underground chambers. And great Olympos was shaken under the immortal feet of the master as he moved, and the earth groaned beneath him, and the heat and blaze from both of them was on the dark-faced sea, from the thunder and lightning of Zeus and from the flame of the monster, from his bla

7、zing bolts and from the scorch and breath of his stormwinds, and all the ground and the sky and the sea boiled, and towering waves were tossing and beating all up and down the promontories in the wind of these immortals, and a great shaking of the earth came on, and Haides, lord over the perished de

8、ad, trembled, and the Titanes under Tartaros, who live beside Kronos, trembled to the dread encounter and the unending clamour.Gaia made an earthquake, and Typhon made a terrible storm.But now, when Zeus had headed up his own strength, seizing his weapons, thunder, lightning, and the glowering thund

9、erbolt, he made a leap from Olympos, and struck, setting fire to all those wonderful heads set about on the dreaded monster. Then, when Zeus had put him down with his strokes, Typhoeus crashed, crippled, and the gigantic earth groaned beneath him, and the flame from the great lord so thunder-smitten

10、 ran out along the darkening and steep forests of the mountains as he was struck, and a great part of the gigantic earth burned in the wonderful wind of his heat, and melted, as tin melts in the heat of the carefully grooved crucible when craftsmen work it, or as iron, though that is the strongest s

11、ubstance, melts under stress of blazing fire in the mountain forests worked by handicraft of Hephaistos inside the divine earth. So earth melted in the flash of the blazing fire; but Zeus in tumult of anger cast Typhoeus into broad Tartaros.Zeus defeated Typhon and cast him into Tartarus.And from Ty

12、phoeus comes the force of winds blowing wetly, except Notos (the South Wind) and Boreas (the North Wind) and clear Zephyros (the West Wind). These are a god-sent kind, and a great blessing to men; but the others blow fitfully upon the seas. Some rush upon the misty sea and work great havoc among men

13、 with their evil, raging blasts; for varying with the season they blow, scattering ships and destroying sailors. And men who meet these upon the sea have no help against the mischief. Others again over the boundless, flowering earth spoil the fair fields of men who dwell below, filling them with dus

14、t and cruel uproar.The Winds which produced by Typhon destroyed the land and the places what people livedPindar, Pythian Ode 1. 16 ff (trans. Conway) (Greek lyric C5th B.C.) :But violence brings to ruin even the boastful hard-heart soon or late. Kilikion (Cilician) Typhon of the hundred heads could

15、not escape his fate.Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 353 ff (trans. Weir Smyth) (Greek tragedy C5th B.C.) :Pity moved me the Titan Prometheus, too, at the sight of the earth-born (ggens) dweller of the Kilikian (Cilician) caves curbed by violence, that destructive monster of a hundred heads (hekatonkaran

16、os), impetuous (thouros) Typhon. He withstood all the gods, hissing out terror with horrid jaws, while from his eyes lightened a hideous glare, as though he would storm by force the sovereignty of Zeus. But the unsleeping bolt of Zeus came upon him, the swooping lightning brand with breath of flame, which struck him, frightened, from his loud-mouthed boasts; then, stricken to the very heart, he was burnt to ashes and his strength blasted from him by the li