Question

希腊神话的问题！

1． Why can we say Greek mythology is an origin of western culture?
2． Why are there so many nude images in European paintings and sculptures?
3． What are the similarities and differences between Greek gods/goddesses and Chinese ones?
4． What is your understanding of Trojan War?

Answer 1

1.The people of Greek create Greek mythology, Greek is a western country, so is an origin of westen culture.
2.Because when we come to the earth, we are nude.
3.They both got king of gods, got different post and rank;
Greek gods are more humanity, such as Zues killed his father for the throne and Hera jealous of Zues with other women, but Chinese gods don't have so much of those 'sins';
Greek gods can give birth their child without his/her company, but they Chinese gods not.
4.I only know Aris participated in it.

Answer 2

1.The people of Greek create Greek mythology, Greek is a western country, so is an origin of westen culture.
2.Because when we come to the earth, we are nude.

4.I only know Aris participated in it.

Answer 3

1.Because the characters' personalities are based on the western people of that time.
2.The world has two sides ,the painter wants to show the bad side to people in order to help us find the good side of the world.
3.I think Greek gods aren't good all the time.but chinese ones are noble and perfect all the time.chinese gods only have good personalities but greek ones have some disadvantages.
4.It is a talent show of "justice" and intelligence,which shows us many heros such as Achilles and Agamemnon

sorry,there may be some mistakes. they are just my understanding.

Answer 4

希腊神话，罗马神话，北欧神话里好像都有宙斯，只是叫的名字不同，希腊影响了整个欧洲文明

Answer 5

在希腊神话中，无论是宙斯还是他的父亲卡厄诺斯，都是近亲结合的，是我不能接受的，乱伦啊