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At a wedding party Eris, the goddess of discord, threw a golden apple bearing the wordsFor the fairest! Hera,Athena and Aphrodite,each wanting to get it for herself,were sent to Paris for judgement. A...
日期：2013-03-22
Acrisius,king of Argos,was Hypermnestra' s grandson.He had one beautiful daughter, Danae by name. So much did he love her that he decided not to remarry after the death of his wife. But one day an ora...
日期：2013-03-22
A prophet warned King Laius of Thebes that because he had married his cousin Jocasta,he would be killed by his son.To avoid the disaster,he ordered his loyal shepherd to kill his newborn baby son.The ...
日期：2013-03-22
Achilles felt proud of his parentage.His grandfather was noted for his justice and uprightness and became a judge in Hades after death. His father Peleus was a brave warrior and later married the beau...
日期：2013-03-22
The Greed made up stories about how.The world began, and how gods,giants and people came be.At first ,they said, the world was all mixed up. Earth fire and water were all mixed together.Then heaven an...
日期：2013-03-22
The Greeks told stories to explain how things came to be. The first animals and the first man were made by two giants who had been on the side of the gods in the war with CronusPrometheus,a cheerful g...
日期：2013-03-22
The Greed made up stories about how.The world began, and how gods,giants and people came be.At first ,they said, the world was all mixed up. Earth fire and water were all mixed together.Then heaven an...
日期：2013-03-12
One day the staff members of a zoo called a meeting to discuss the problem--how to deal with the kangaroos that were found out of the cage. They came to the conclusion that the cage was placed too low...
日期：2013-03-12
No one knows who made the first cheese,but an old legend says that it was an Arabian merchant.He put his milk in a pouch made from a sheep's stomach and set off across the desert.The jouncing of his c...
日期：2013-03-12
Long ago, the Sky was quite low. If you stood on a stool and stretched your hands up as high as they would go, you could touch the Sky.At that time, far on the Horizon, where the Sky was always especi...
日期：2013-03-12
Among the crowd of Olympian gods the one most widely admired was Apollo.He was the son of Zeus and Let to.According to Greek mythology,Leto was driven by Hera from land to land at last Poseidon took P...
日期：2013-03-11
Between Macedon and Thessaly of eastern Greece there stood a high mountain.Its cloudy top rushed into the very heavens.On the top of the mountain, the home of the gods was bathed in brightness. At Oly...
日期：2013-03-11
After the stealing of fire,Zeus became increasingly unkind to men.One day he ordered his son Hephaestus to build an image of a beautiful maiden out of clay.He then asked the gods and goddesses to awar...
日期：2013-03-10
There once lived a race of huge giants called Titans. These giants were fierce, violent, and lawless-always fighting among themselves and against Zeus, the king of the gods.One of the Titans, whose na...
日期：2013-03-10
One cold night the king called Nasreddin to him and said, If you're able to spend this night in the courtyard with only your shirt on, I will give you one hundred gold coins!In the courtyard Nasreddin...
日期：2013-03-09
