English Vocabulary Originated from Greek and Roman Mythology
1.Words Derived from Names of Gods:
Titans:lols
she is my wifeThe Titans were a race of powerful deities that ruled during the legendary Golden Age. Their role as Elder Gods is overthrown by a prent race of younger gods, the Olympians. The Titans were associated with various xual concepts, some of which are simply extrapolated from their names: ocean and fruitful earth, sun and moon, memory and natural
law. The twelve first-generation Titans were ruled by the youngest, Kronos (Saturn), who overthrew their father, Ouranos ('Sky'), at the urgings of their mother, dayflyGaia ('Earth').
jsp是什么意思Titanic: having great magnitude, force, or power
Cronos:
乔治 华盛顿In ancient Greek myths, Cronus envied the power of his father, the ruler of the univer, Ouranos. Ouranos drew the enmity of Cronus' mother, Gaia, when he hid the gigantic youngest children of Gaia, the hundred-armed Hecatonchires and one-eyed Cyclopes, in Tartarus, so that they would not e the light. Gaia created a great adamant sickle and gathered together Cronus and his brothers to persuade them to kill Ouranos. Only Cronubecauof
s was willing to do the deed, so Gaia gave him the sickle and placed him in ambush. When Ouranos met with Gaia, Cronus attacked him with the sickle by cutting off his genitals, castrating him and casting the vered member into the a. From the blood (or, by a few accounts, men) that spilled out from Ouranos and fell upon the earth, the Gigantes, Erinyes, and Meliae were produced. From the member that was cast into the a, Aphrodite later emerged.[3] For this, Ouranos threatened vengeance and called his sons titenes (according to Hesiod meaning "straining ones," the source of the word "titan", but this etymology is disputed) for overstepping their boundaries and daring to commit such an act.
Painting by Peter Paul Rubens of Cronus devouring one of his children.Cronus learned from Gaia and Ouranos that he was destined to be overcome by his own son, just as he had overthrown his father. As a result, although he sired the gods Demeter, Hera, Hades, Hestia, and Poidon by Rhea, he swallowed them all as soon as they were born to preempt the prophecy. When the sixth child, Zeus, was born Rhea sought Gaia to devi a plan to save them and to eventually get retribution on Cronus for his acts against his fat
her and children. Rhea cretly gave birth to Zeus in Crete, and handed Cronus a stone wrapped in swaddling clothes, also known as the Omphalos Stone, which he promptly swallowed, thinking that it was his son.
Rhea kept Zeus hidden in a cave on Mount Ida, Crete. According to some versions of the story, he was then raid by a goat named Amalthea, while a company of Kouretes, armored male dancers, shouted and clapped their hands to make enough noi to mask the baby's cries from Cronus. Other versions of the myth have Zeus raid by the nymph Adamanthea, who hid Zeus by dangling him by a rope from a tree so that he was suspended between the earth, the a, and the sky, all of which were ruled by his father, Cronus.
Once he had grown up, Zeus ud a poison given to him by Gaia to force Cronus (Kronos or Kronus) to disgorge the contents of his stomach in rever order: first the stone, which was t down at Pytho under the glens of Mount Parnassus to be a sign to mortal men, then the goat, and then his two brothers and three sisters. In other versions
of the tale, Metis gave Cronus an emetic to force him to disgorge the children, or Zeus cut Cronus' stomach open. After freeing his siblings, Zeus relead the Gigantes, the Hecatonchires, and the Cyclopes, who forged for him his thunderbolts. In a vast war called the Titanomachy, Zeus and his brothers and sisters, with the help of the Gigantes, Hecatonchires, and Cyclopes, overthrew Cronus and the other Titans. Afterwards, many of the Titans were confined in Tartarus. Some Titans were not banished to Tartarus. Atlas, Cronus, Epimetheus, Menoetius, Oceanus and Prometheus are examples of Titans who were not imprisoned in Tartarus following the Titanomachy. Gaia bore the monster Typhon to claim revenge for the imprisoned Titans, though Zeus was victorious. Accounts of the fate of Cronus after the Titanomachy differ. In Homeric and other texts he is imprisoned with the other Titans in Tartarus. In Orphic poems, he is imprisoned for eternity in the cave of Nyx. Pindar describes his relea from Tartarus, where he is made King of Elysium by Zeus.
chronic adj. 耗费时间的，慢性的
chronicle n. 编年史，载入编年史安道尔共和国
chronology n. 年代学，年表
chronological
Atlaskeith urban:
sinceAtlas was a Titan, one of the firstborn sons of Earth. Atlas made the mistake of siding with his brother Cronus in a war against Zeus. In punishment, he was compelled to support the weight of the heavens by means of a pillar on his shoulders. He was temporarily relieved of this burden by Heracles, who needed the Titan's aid in procuring the Golden Apples of the Hesperides. In connection with another heroic quest, Atlas divulged the whereabouts of the Graeae to Perus.
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Atlas: one who bears a heavy burden
atlas: a: a bound collection of maps often including illustrations, informative tables, or textual matter b: a bound collection of tables, charts, or plates (16世纪地理学家麦卡脱把Atlas擎天图作为地图册的卷首插图，后人争相效仿)
Ares (Mars in Roman myth): God of War
In Greek mythology, Ares is the son of Zeus and Hera. Though often referred to as the Ol
ympian god of warfare, he is more accurately the god of bloodlust, or slaughter personified: "Ares is apparently an ancient abstract noun meaning throng of battle, war."
martial adj. 与军事、战争有关的
martial arts 武术
martial law 军事管制，戒严令
Hephaestus (Roman myth: Vulcan)
He was the god of technology, blacksmiths, craftsmen, artisans, sculptors, metals, metallurgy, fire and volcanoes. Like other mythic smiths but unlike most other gods, Hephaestus was lame, which gave him a grotesque appearance in Greek eyes. He rve
d as the blacksmith of the gods, and he was worshipped in the manufacturing and industrial centers of Greece, particularly in Athens. The center of his cult was in Lemnos.
