湖北工业大学毕业设计（论文）
摘 要
希腊神话是希腊艺术的“武库”和“土壤”，也是欧美文艺取之不尽的艺术源泉 。 马克思曾说：“希腊神话不只是希腊艺术的武库，而且是它的土壤”。 希腊神话凸显的是人的精神，回荡着昂扬、乐观、健康的现世气息。本研究通过古希腊神话故事背景及其故事的内容进行探究，将神话故事进行大致分类。再将各类神话故事进行细致分析并找出运用其中的英语俗语，了解并探究这些英语俗语的特点及其类型和运用等方面。本研究还对希腊神话中的俗语对后来的影响进行了探究，了解到它们对现代语言，文学，艺术等方面都有着重要的影响。
关键词：希腊神话; 俗语; 文学
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湖北工业大学毕业设计（论文）
Abstract
Greek mythology is the \and \of Greek art, is also the inexhaustible source of art in European and American literary. Marx once said: \mythology is not only the armory of Greek art, but also its soil\Greek mythology highlight the human spirit, echoed with great enthusiasm, optimistic and healthy life. Through the ancient Greek myth story background and content of the story, this research will classify the tales and analysis all kinds of myths and find out the use of it. To understand and explore the characteristics and the types of these English proverb and etc, this study also explores the Greek mythology proverb, the influence of modern language, literature, art, etc.
Keywords: Greek mythology; literature; proverb
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湖北工业大学毕业设计（论文）
目录
摘 要 ................................................................................................................... 1 1 Introduction .......................................................................................................... 5 2 Summary of myth ................................................................................................. 6 2.1 An overview of Greek myths ......................................................................... 6 3 Research on classification of English idioms in ancient Greek mythology ..... 7 3.1 Some English proverbs from the Twelve Olympians in Greek mythology ... 7
3.1.1 Horn of Plenty and Abundance ............................................................ 7 3.1.2 An Apple of Discord ............................................................................ 7 3.2 Some English proverbs from the other gods in Greek mythology ................. 8
3.2.1 The wheel of fortune ............................................................................ 8 3.2.2 Web of life ............................................................................................ 9 3.3. Some English proverbs from the stories of heros in Greek mythology. ....... 9
3.3.1 Achilles' heel ........................................................................................ 9 3.3.2 Cadmean victory ................................................................................ 10 3.4 Some English proverbs from the stories of half demigods in Greek mythology. ............................................................................................................................ 10
3.4.1 Pile Pelion on Ossa ............................................................................. 10 3.5. Some English proverbs from the stories of mortals in Greek mythology. .. 10
3.5.1 Midas touch ........................................................................................ 10
4 Today's English proverbs derived from Greek mythology ............................. 12 4.1 The direct use of proverbs in Greek mythology ........................................... 12 4.2 The indirect use of proverbs of Greek mythology ........................................ 13 5 The influence of Greek mythology proverbs on the current literature ......... 14 5.1 Greek mythology proverbs provide a solid foundation for the development of British and American literature .......................................................................... 14
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湖北工业大学毕业设计（论文）
5.2 Greek mythology provides the unique way of thinking for literary ............. 14 5.3 For the British and American literature works provide a rich source of story15 6 Conclusion ........................................................................................................... 16 7 Bibliography ........................................................................................................ 17 8 Acknowledgement ............................................................................................... 18
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湖北工业大学毕业设计（论文）
1 Introduction
Mythology is the first precious spiritual wealth of human creation. It is not only a kind of pure literature, but also an integrated mass of social ideology which includes religion, philosophy, politics, art, customs, science, history in the primitive society. Every country and nation has its own myths. Ancient Greek played a huge role in the development of European literature. It‘s not only the source of western culture, but also a key of vitality and deep roots in every language and culture in the west. With regard to English language, the profound influence of the Greek myth can be seen everywhere.
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古希腊神话故事研究毕业论文
