求一篇短小英文希腊神话故事

Answer 1

这个是希腊小故事：
Achilles’heel/the heel of Achilles阿喀琉斯之踵
In the movie Iliad, Patroclus is the cousin of Achilles, while in mythology he was Achilles's closest companion. In the movie, Paris warns against the acceptance of the Trojan Horse, but in mythology a Trojan priest named Laocoön warns against the acceptance of the Trojan Horse. Laocoön is then killed by a sea serpent, making the Trojans believe that the gods want them to accept the horse. In the movie, the Trojan horse fits right through the gates of Troy, while in mythology the Trojans' walls had to be partially disassembled for the Trojan horse to fit through.

In the movie, Achilles is killed by Paris during the fall of Troy -- he does shoot him through his heel, but this is not the killing strike (and it appears it is more the distraction of trying to save Briseis that leaves him vulnerable than the wound to his heel). In mythology Paris shoots Achilles in the heel with an arrow guided by Apollo. This happens before the Trojan Horse is even built and thus Achilles never would have entered the horse. Additionally, there is no mention in the Iliad of Achilles returning Briseis to Priam nor of him entering the city to save her from the burning of Troy.

In the movie, Priam is killed by Agamemnon, while in mythology, Achilles' son, Neoptolemus, kills him. As a side-note, since Achilles is only in his late twenties at this point of the Homeric version of the legend, he must have fathered Neoptolemus at a very young age, probably no older than fourteen, and his son did not accompany him on the intitial voyage to Troy (as told in Greek dramas like Philoctetes by Sophocles). Although his presence would make sense given Achilles' depicted age in the film, Neoptolemus is still absent. In the movie, Patroclus is killed by Hector, who mistakes him as Achilles. In mythology, Patroclus is wounded by Euphorbos and Hector kills him with a spear in the belly, knowing that he is Patroclus in Achilles' armor.
As a hero of the Trojan War, son of Peleus and Thetis. During his infancy his mother plunged him in the Styx, thus making his body invulnerable except for the heel by which she held him. During the Trojan War, Achilles killed Hector but was later wounded in the heel by an arrow shot by Paris and died
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潘多拉的宝盒Pandora’s box
In Greek mythology, Pandora ("giver of all, all-endowed" ) was the first woman. Each god helped create her by giving her unique gifts. Zeus ordered Hephaestus to mould her out of Earth (Gaîa -Gaia) as part of the punishment of mankind for Prometheus' theft of the secret of fire, and all the gods joined in offering this "beautiful evil" seductive gifts. Her other name, inscribed against her figure on a white-ground kylix in the British Museum (illustration, right), is Anesidora, "she who sends up gifts." According to the myth, Pandora opened a jar (pithos) in modern accounts referred to as "Pandora's box", releasing all the evils of mankind— although the particular evils are not specified in detail — leaving only Hope inside once she had closed it again. She might have opened the jar out of simple curiosity and not as a malicious act.
The myth of Pandora is very old, appears in several distinct Greek versions, and has been interpreted in many ways. In all literary versions, however, the myth is a kind of theodicy, addressing the question of why there is evil in the world. In the seventh century BC Hesiod, both in his Theogony (briefly, without naming Pandora outright, line 570) and in Works and Days, gives the earliest literary version of the Pandora story. There is an older mention of jars or urns containing blessings and evils bestowed upon Mankind in Homer
The immortals know no care, yet the lot they spin for man is full of sorrow; on the floor of Zeus' palace there stand two urns, the one filled with evil gifts, and the other with good ones. He for whom Zeus the lord of thunder mixes the gifts he sends, will meet now with good and now with evil fortune; but he to whom Zeus sends none but evil gifts will be pointed at by the finger of scorn, the hand of famine will pursue him to the ends of the world, and he will go up and down the face of the earth, respected neither by gods nor men.