Many people are passionate about Greek mythology, I think it is nothing more than because it magnifies heroes, beauties and wisdom to the extreme, making ordinary people aspire to and unattainable, and ordinary people can also bring infinite strength to themselves in the process of expecting beauty.
I have also read several versions of Greek mythology, and Richard Buxton's The Complete World of Greek Mythology is the most researching, which interprets each myth and legend from a research perspective.
The book spans from 900 BC to 30 BC, and how the Greek mythological stories have changed are presented one by one, and at the same time, it is intimately accompanied by a chronology of Greek mythology, allowing readers to easily follow the time context.
Myths have a long origin, and after oral transmission, it is inevitable that different versions or broken genealogies will appear. And this book is precisely foreseeable that the author consults a large number of materials before editing, and does not hesitate to write and ink on the parts that can explain the mythological story in detail.
For example, the goddess Daphne, legend has it that she is the daughter of the river god, which river god is specifically referred to? Two possible explanations are given, one is the daughter of the river Ladon of Arcadia and the other is the daughter of the river Peneos of Thesalia.
The Ladon River in Arcadia is one of the loveliest rivers in Greece, while the Peneos River in Thesalia flows through the Tenby River valley between Mount Osa and Mount Olympus.
Perhaps many people don't know who Daphne is, but if you want to say that "Apollo and Daphne" (some versions translate to "Apollo and Daphne") you must have heard that the poignant and moving love story told by Ovid in "The Metamorphosis" is about the two of them.
In the 17th century, the master Bernini created the work "Apollo and Daphne" based on the "Metamorphosis", which once became a classic of Bernini's life.
Zhang Ailing wrote in "Red Rose and White Rose": "Maybe every man has had two such women, at least two. Married to a red rose, over time, the red one changed into a smear of mosquito blood on the wall, and the white one was still 'bright moonlight in front of the bed'; married to a white rose, the white one was a grain of rice sticky on the clothes, but the red one was a cinnabar mole on the heart. ”
The love that cannot be obtained is always the favor of a man, and the love at first sight made Apollo taste the sadness of love, and in the end he could only take with him Daphne, who turned into a laurel tree, and the piano Apollo held in his hand was made of laurel and the laurel branches of the flower crown he wore on his head.
Apollo was the god of art, and later when people rewarded those who achieved artistic achievements, they also wore garlands made of laurel branches on their heads, which was also a memorial to his unbearable love.
At the end of the article, the gods on Mount Olympus have left many beautiful and mysterious legends to mankind, but they still can't escape the human fireworks of seven emotions and six desires. After all, the legend of God is still the life of these thousands of living beings.
Different versions of Greek mythology focus on different directions, in "The Complete World of Greek Mythology", you can see the mythological characters of different periods, at the same time, reveal the background and meaning of their lives, and explore the origin and region and culture of human beings, this is a book that studies Greek mythology, but also a study of Greek culture and history, very collectible.
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