古希腊神话文学Ancient Greek mythology and Literature.docx

1、古希腊神话文学Ancient Greek mythology and Literature古希腊神话文学（Ancient Greek mythology and Literature）The important source of modern western cultural spirit - ancient Greek mythologyAbstract: Western culture comes from the two Greek Civilizations, namely ancient Greece and Hebrew civilization. Ancient Greek m

2、ythology as one of the sources of western culture, as Marx said, Greek mythology is its soil and arsenal. Ancient Greek drama, architecture, painting, sculpture and other ancient Greek mythology derive nutrients. So it can be said that ancient Greek mythology is an important source of Western cultur

3、e. The ancient Greek myth of western culture is 100 and this is not to mind taking the trouble of the material, evident to anyone. This article focuses on trying to explore the two important spiritual blood drawn from the ancient Greek mythology, namely, humanism and reason. These two spirits are th

4、e two main spirits of the whole modern western culture.Key words: Western modern culture, spiritual source, ancient Greek mythologyMyth and ancient Greek mythologyMarx in the introduction of political economics that myth is by peoples fantasy, a conscious way of art processed natural and social form

5、 is with imagination and with imagination to conquer the natural force and control the forces of nature, to visualize the forces of nature. Therefore, mythology is the exploration of the relationship between nature and self, nature and self. Myth should be the clan, tribal, national, and even a grou

6、p of people, the original natural view, world view, the real rational expression. The myth reflects peoples thoughts and ideas, and myth as a national footprint of the earliest record, because less under the influence of traditional culture, modern civilization or oppression, it directly shows the c

7、losest to the bottom or the nature of things in human nature. Ancient Greek mythology as a rich system of mythology, of course, also represents the most essential spirit of ancient Greek human nature.We now know all the ancient Greek myth story from Homa epic and Theogony and Hesiods works and days.

8、 The Homa epic includes the Iliad and the two part. Iliad tells the story of the ancient Greeks fighting Troy against the iliad. Osed describes the problems in Greece in the return voyage, after Homa wrote the origin of Hesiod Theogony and work with the time of the Greek gods, the start of history.

9、From sixth Century BC to third Century BC, the Greek tragedy for three master Askew Ross, Sophocles, Oulipidesi classics also greatly enriched the content of Greek mythology. Ancient Greek mythology mainly includes the story of God and the legend of heroes. The former includes stories about the crea

10、tion of heaven and earth, the birth of God, the genealogy of God, the origin of human beings and the activities of god. There are twelve main Greek gods in ancient Greek mythology, they lived in northern Greece, on Mount olympus. They are the god Zeus, after the lightning tube empty God Hera, Poseid

11、on, God of the sun, the moon god Apollo Artemis, Athena, Aphrodite, goddess of beauty and love of Ares, and Gods fire, Kratos craftsman footed messenger Hermes, Herr Saturnalia Demeter, Hestia vesta. In addition to the small gods of Eros, knowledge and art of the goddess Mousika, hercules. In additi

12、on to the gods and the ancient Greek mythology and legends, mainly reflects the distant ancient social life and human mind, material development and the nature of the struggle, and many people reflect the struggle for production of knowledge. Greek mythology has its own system, integrity, plot rich

13、and tortuous, and it has great charm.Two. The humanistic spirit in ancient Greek mythology and its influenceMost of the gods in Chinese mythology belong to the shape of animals, half human, half animal or several kinds of animals. There are few human beings in ancient Greek mythology. There are also

14、 traces of human beings in the ancient Greek mythology. They are the ancestors of gods. However, the main characters of ancient Greek mythology, Greek twelve main gods, are similar to human beings and are similar to human beings. The gods and heroes in ancient Greek mythology have strong secularity.

15、(1) one of the manifestations of Humanistic Spirit - God reflects manIn the works of ancient Greek mythology, the content of the portrait of God and the sculpture of God in ancient Greece, we can tell that the Greek gods are anthropomorphic. The ancient Greeks worshiped God, but they did not give Go

16、d too much sublimity, nor did they regard God as the standard of moral measurement, but they regarded God as mans refraction. In addition to the Greek gods immortal magic, not much difference in human. Most of the ancient Greek myths are gods endowed with super power but with more humanity. The anci

17、ent Greek gods lived on Mount Olympus, they organized a set of family and social life of the network, they think like a person, like a person to love, marriage, jealousy, child rearing. The mood of the Greek god is ordinary peoples emotions. All this shows that Greek mythology is concerned about its

18、elf. God in ancient Greece in the hearts of the heart that is neither the naked legal relationship and realistic state, nor in the heart that terrible majesty and Christian High and can not, nor Chinese that dry rigid moral idol myth, but showing a sweet more perfect human image, showing a the beaut

19、y of the ideal. Greek mythology is the story of mans experience and society. This is the complete embodiment of a humanistic spirit.The noble Queen Hera, like the women of the world, faced with her husband Jose who was not devoted to her life, she was jealous and resentful, and went to Joses lover a

20、gain and again, and took her husbands extramarital affair. She put the card into bear Lister, she forced Jose to turned into a bull. Although God, Dionysus was the day the song, he is not serious about booze, and noble. Daphne refused to pursue their own pursuit of the sun god Apollo had turned into

21、 a laurel tree, that a person does not love their love troubles.(two) two of the manifestation of humanistic spirit reveal the various desires of affirmationAncient Greek mythology not only shows the wisdom and bravery of the gods, but also expresses the praise and pursuit of wisdom and bravery. It

22、also fully reveals and affirms the gods pursuit of lust, kingship and property. Dissertation net lwfree The ancient Greeks advocated wisdom and courage from their understanding and understanding of nature and human beings. In the face of the harsh mountain jungle and the vagaries of the sea, in the

23、face of the strong natural and human insignificance, the ancient Greeks can survive only by wisdom and bravery. Ancient Greek mythology embodies the pursuit of wisdom and bravery by shaping different kinds of gods and heroes. Jose when the LORD God, rely on their own wisdom, courage and strength; Pl

24、o Michel J in violation of God for human to steal light fire, rely on the wisdom and courage; Hercules for human have done 12 things and become God, rely on the wisdom and courage; a Wallace Theseus Ho, Jason find gold the wool Road, the siege in the Trojan Odyssey display of wisdom and courage, and

25、 the pursuit of their gods.Ancient Greek mythology did not avoid the lust, status and desire for power of the gods. Who is the head of the gods Zeus, despite the beautiful queen Hera, but also continuously and mortal woman affair; Aphrodite was forced to marry Heffes Toth because of dissatisfaction

26、with the marriage, the kitchen god, so she brave to pursue their own love, fall in love with ares. Network learning rubbish everywhere copy paper for telepresence, which shows the individual will dominate, indulge in the pursuit of personal characteristics of love. Achilles left the battlefield, but

27、 because a door took her love coffee farm woman prisoner, more important is a coffee memnon ignored him as the status and role of the Greek supreme commander, this is he the pursuit of power and value.The ancient Greek Zeus praise with wisdom and strength to defeat the South carat, become the ruler

28、of the universe, mercilessly said he has been so in love with every flower he met a beautiful woman and the world, and their love affair; Vesta Heffes for his wife Aflo Ares and Aphrodite Ares,Aflo, Aphrodite and ares in bed and invited the gods, to humiliate them, but the gods did not despise them,

29、 said Hermans also quite envy even using three nets he caught with Aflo as long as he is willing to Aphrodite together. The ancient Greek myth of the gods reveal all kinds of desire, wisdom, brave pursuit of passion and status, the pursuit of power, the ancient Greek mythology is a metaphor and symb

30、ol form reflects the real awakening consciousness of the ancient Greeks, understanding and affirmation of their own, this is the ancient Greeks respect human spirit.(three) the influence of humanistic spirit on modern western countriesAs Vico, a thinker in Italy, said, not God creates man, but man c

31、reates God in his own image. God is the objectification of mans essence. Ancient Greece is such a humanist, he worship of limited and natural, rather than otherworldly 1168Greek mythology and western traditional ethical spiritWhat is the true meaning of myth? Different scholars have different unders

32、tanding. It is no exaggeration to say that there are many scholars of mythology is how many answers, this is due to the various disciplines are seen in the myth of the mirror in just their own faces, although everyones views are different, but in many expositions we can still see the true meaning of

33、 myth. On the surface, the myth named after the theme of the story is the Gods behavior beyond the human capacity, but the essence of the myth is human talk. It is not nature, but society is the prototype of myth, and all the basic purport of myth is the projection of human social life 1 (P245). British a