古希腊罗马神话.doc

古希腊罗马神话
Prometheus and Man 普罗米修斯与人类
The Different Ages of Man 人类的各个时代
The First Woman 第一个女人
Zeus(Jupiter)and His Wife 宙斯(朱庇特)和他的妻子 new!
Io, a Mistress of Jupiter`s 伊俄--朱庇特的情人 new!
Jupiter`s Love Europa 朱庇特对欧罗巴的爱慕 new!
Jupiter`s Fondness for Semele 朱庇特钟情于塞墨勒 new!
Callisto, Yet Another Sweetheart of Jupiter`s 卡利斯忒--朱庇特的又一位情人 new!
A Contest Between a Mortal and  the Goddess of Wisdom 凡人与智慧女神的竞赛
Mars, the War-God 战神马尔斯
The Killing of Mars`s Sacred Serpent Avenged 杀死战神圣蛇的报 new!
Prometheus and Man
In the conflict between Cronus and Jupiter, Prometheus had adopted the cause of the Olympian deities. To him and his brother Epimetheus was mitted the office of making man and providing him and all other animals with the faculties necessary for their preservation. Epimetheus proceeded to bestow upon the different animals the various gifts of courage, strength, swiftness, and sagacity. Taking some earth and kneading it with water. Prometheus made man in the image of the gods. He gave him an upright stature. Then since Epimetheus had been so prodigal of his gifts to other animals that no blessing was left worth conferring upon the noblest of creatures, Prometheus ascended to heaven, lighted his torch at the chariot of the sun, and brought down fire. But it was only rather grudgingly that Jupiter granted mortals the use of fire.
Then there came the occasion that when gods and men were in dispute at Sicyon concerning the prerogatives of each, Prometheus, by an ingenious trick, attempted to settle the question in favor of man. Dividing into two portions a sacrificial bull, he wrapped all the eatable parts in the skin, cunningly surmounted with uninviting entrails; but the bones he garnished with a plausible mass of fat. He then offered Jupiter his choice. The king of Heaven, although he perceived the intended fraud, took the heap of bones and fat, and forthwith availing himself of this insult as an excuse for punishing mankind, deprived the race of fire. But Prometheus