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※Electra and Orestes killed their mom,so they were hunted down by Furies.

※Poseidon is one of twelve Olympian deities of the pantheon in Greek mythology.

He is called the "God of the Sea" , "Earth-Shaker"

(Poseidon)

※Artemis(Diana)→is the goddess of the hunt,wild animals, wilderness,childbirth,virginity.

She is one of the most widely venerated of the Ancient Greek deities.

※Athene(Minerva) is the goddess of wisedom,courage,inspiration.

She is the virgin patroness of Athens.

※Hestia is a virgin goddess of the hearth,family,ancient Greek architecture and the right of domesticity.

(Artemis)  (Athene) (Hestia)

※Demeter is the goddess of the harvest,who presided over grains and the fertility of the earth.

"She of the Grain"

She presided also over the sacred law and the cycle of life and death.

※Persephone is the queen of the underworld.

(Demeter,Persephone)

She was abducted by Hades because eating pomegrantes.

Zeus+Demeter-----〉Persephone

※Zeus and Hades make agreement that Persephone can go haome with mom(spring and summer)

the other months stay with Hades(autumn and winter)

※Fate or Destiny is a predetermined course of event. It maybe conceived as a predetermined future,whether ingeneral or of an individual.It is a concept based on the belief that there is a fixed natural order to the cosmos.

※Muses in Greek mythology,poetry,and literature,are the goddess of inspiration of literature,science,and the arts.

1.Calliope is the Muse of epic poetry,she is believed to be Homer's muse for the Iliad and the Odyssey.

2.Clio is the Muse of lyre playing.

3.Euterpe is the Muse of music   "Giver of delight"

In late Classical times she was named muse of lyric poetry and depicted holding a flute.

4.Erato is the Muse of lyric poetry,especially love and erotic poetry.

The name would mean "desired" or "lovely"   She is shown with a wreath of myrtle and rose,holdimg a lyre,or a small kithara.

5.Melpomene is the Muse of Trogedy.  She is often represented with a tragic mask and wearing the cothurnus.

6.Polyhymnia is the Muse of sacred poetry. She is depicted as very serious,pensive and meditative. She appears in Divine Comedy:Paradise

7.Terpsichore is the Muse of dance and chorus. She is usually depicted sitting down,holding a lyre.

8.Thalia is the Muse of Comedy. She is portrayed as a young and holding a comic mask in her hand.

9.Urania is the Muse of astronmy.

(nine Muses)

※Charis or Grace is one of three or more minor goddess of charm,beauty,nature,creativity,and fertility.

1.Aglaea is the goddess of beauty,splendor,and glory.

2.Euphrosyne is the goddess of joy or mirth.

3.Thalia is the goddess of festivity and rich banquets.

※Herakles is divine hero in Greek mythology.His iconographic attributes are the lion skin and the club.

※Pygmalion is a legendary figure of Cyprus.Though Pygmalion is the Greek version of the Phoenician royal name Pumayyaton, he is most familiar from Ovid's narrative poem Metamorphoses, in which Pygmalion was a sculptor who fell in love with a statue he had carved.

●Pygmalion effect(Rosenthal effect) is the phenomenon whereby the greater the expectation placed upon people,the better they perform.

※Galatea is a name popularly applied to the statue carved of ivory by Pygmalion of Cyprus. Galatea is also the name of Polyphemus's object of desire in Theocritus's Idylls VI and XI and is linked with Polyphemus again in the myth of Acis and Galatea in Ovid's Metamorphoses.

dem-:people

democratic:an advocate of democratic principles  e.g.Taiwan is a democratic country.

demonstrate:to show or prove something clearly.   e.g.The workers demonstrated for higher wages.

epidemic:(especially of medicine) of disease or anything resembling a disease;affacting many individual in community or a population simultaneously.   e.g.The diease is epidemic.

-cide:kill,cut

suicide:the act of killing by yourself   e.g. He attempted suicide after his firm had gone bankrupt.

homicide:the killing of a human being by another human being  e.g.He felt like a homicide as he raised the gun and pulled trigger.

insecticide:a chemical substance used for killing insects  e.g. I bought a can of insecticide from the market.

◎bureaucracy:a complicated official system which is annoying or confusing because it has a lot of rules, processes etc.