二零一二年西方文化入门第五讲
October, 2012
希腊诸神和罗马诸神对照表
Greek God/Goddess Roman God/Goddess
Zeus 宙斯（天王） Jupiter 朱庇特
Hera 赫拉（天后） Juno 朱诺
Athena 雅典娜青岛英语口语培训 Minerva 密涅瓦
ramyDemeter 德墨特尔（谷物女神） Ceres 色列斯
Apollo 阿波罗（预言之神，主管光明、 Apollo 阿波罗
青春、音乐、诗歌、医药、畜牧等，）
vampire是什么意思Artemis 阿尔忒弥斯 （狩猎和动物） Diana 狄安娜
Ares 阿瑞斯 （战神） Mars 马尔斯
Aphrodite 阿弗罗蒂狄（爱情和美丽之神）Venus 维纳斯
Hephaestus 赫菲斯托斯（火和锻冶之神） Vulcan 伏尔干
ziniHermes 赫尔墨斯（信使） Mercury 墨丘利（信使，掌管商业，道路，等）
Poidon 波塞冬（海神） Neptune 尼普顿
Hestia comer赫斯提（灶神或家室之神） Vesta 维斯太
Hades 哈得斯（冥神） Pluto 普鲁托（冥王）
scratch是什么意思Perphone 普西芬尼（冥后, 春天之神）） Prorpina
Dionysus 狄俄尼索斯（酒神） Bacchus 教育机构排名巴克斯（希神，罗神）
Eros 厄洛斯（爱神） Cupid 丘比特（爱神）
Religion plays an important role in his work, especially in Aeneid, an epic poem in twelve books compod in the last years of his life. It was designed to celebrate the origin and growth of the Roman Empire. It tells of the story of Aeneas who, after the fall of Troy and long wanderings, founded a Trojan ttlement in Latium and thus became the ancestors of Romans. The epic provided an account of the origins of the Roman civilization and soon won Virgil the favour of Octavian and the ruling class. Its epic form afforded scope for the mythical and supernatural elements, as found in Homeric epic. It enabled the ancient beliefs and practices of magic and religion to be revealed. It glorified the Roman people and their principle families by depicting their ancestors in the heroic age, and by enlisting the device of prophecy, recounted the historical triumphs of Rome and Augustus. The striking feature of the poem is the conception of Italy as a single nation and of Roman history as a continuous whole form the founding of the city to the full expansion of the empire.
The yizuAeneid succeeds in challenging the pre-eminence of the great Homeric poems as standards for the epic genre. There are many Homeric reminiscences, such as Aeneas’
many adventures on his way to Italy in the first half of the epic, and the similar warring experiences between the Trojans and the Italians over a woman in the cond half. Virgil nevertheless could always transform what he learned from the Greek epics. He invigorated sounds, n images so that the Aeneid later became a model epic in the European tradition.
Word Study to the excerpts from the poems of Horace
1. stall: compartment, usu with three sides, for one animal in a stable or cattle shed
2. disdain: to consider or reject as unworthy of onelf.
3. retire: withdraw voluntarily, esp for reorganization打报告
4. Nymphs: one of the numerous female spirits inhabiting and animistically reprenting feature of nature , as woodlands and waters. 林中和水中仙女。
5. Graces: Three sister goddess (Aglaia, Euphrosyne, and Thalis) who dispen charm and beauty. 美惠三女神。
6. measure: (dated) ver rhythm, metre, tempo of a piece of music.
7. mead: meadow.
8. squire: farmer
9. crocus: a plant of genus Crocus, widely cultivated in gardens and having showy, variously coloured flowers and grasslike leaves。番红花。
10. myrtle: any of veral everygreen shrub or tree of genus Myrtus , esp. M. Commiphora, anaromatic shrub native to the Medterranean region and Western Asia, having pink or white flowers and blue-black berries.香桃木；番樱桃；爱神木（桃金娘科常绿灌木）
11. sport: play about; amu onelf; have fun
12. carnival: (period of) public festivals of merry-making occurring at a regular time of year, eg. In Roman Catholic countries during the week before Lent. 四旬节；狂欢节
13. hey ohPan: The god of woods, fields and flocks, having a human torso with goat’s legs, horns and ears. 潘
14. marjoram: an aromatic plant, Majorana hortensis, having small purplish-white flowers and leaves ud as asoning.
15. pallid: (of a person, his face, etc) pale, esp becau of illness.
16. imperious: (fml) proud and arrogant, domineering, expecting obedience.
17. dice: small cub of wood, bone, plastic, etc. that has a different numbers of spots on each side, from one to six, ud in game of chance. 色子；
18. Molle: a light, dry white wine produced in the valley of the Molle River
