雅思口语资料：月神阿尔特弥斯介绍（中英文）

雅思口语资料：月神阿尔特弥斯介绍（中英文）

随着留学市场的不断发展，越来越多的学生选择留学。如果你也是想要留学的学生之一，那么你就需要参加语言考试，其中雅思托福就是最为常见的英语考试。本文将为大家介绍希腊神话中的月神阿尔忒弥斯（Artemis），帮助大家积累口语素材。

阿尔忒弥斯Artemis
阿尔忒弥斯 (希腊文 ;拉丁文Artemis)，罗马神话中的狄安娜。掌管狩猎，照顾妇女分娩，保护反抗和蔑视爱神的青年男女。曾与孪生兄弟阿波罗一起，杀死迫害其母的巨蟒皮同和羞辱其母的尼俄柏及其子女。在土耳其以弗所，有专为她修筑的亚底米神庙。

Artemis was one of the most widely venerated of the Ancient Greek deities.Her Roman equivalent is Diana. Some scholars believe that the name and indeedthe goddess herself was originally pre-Greek. Homer refers to her as ArtemisAgrotera, Potnia Theron: Artemis of the wildland, Mistress of Animals.TheArcadians believed she was the daughter of Demeter.

In the classical period of Greek mythology, Artemis (Greek: (nominative)Ἄ, (genitive)Ἀέ) was often described as the daughter of Zeus andLeto, and the twin sister of Apollo. She was the Hellenic goddess of the hunt,wild animals, wilderness, childbirth, virginity and protector of young girls,bringing and relieving disease in women; she often was depicted as a huntresscarrying a bow and arrows. The deer and the cypress were sacred to her. In laterHellenistic times, she even assumed the ancient role of Eileithyia in aidingchildbirth.

Birth

Various conflicting accounts are given in Classical Greek mythology of thebirth of Artemis and her twin brother, Apollo. All accounts agree, however, thatshe was the daughter of Zeus and Leto, and the twin sister of Apollo.

An account by Callimachus has it that Hera forbade Leto to give birth oneither terra firma (the mainland) or on an island. Hera was angry with Zeus, herhusband, because he had impregnated Leto. But the island of Delos (or Ortygia inthe Homeric Hymn to Artemis) disobeyed Hera, and Leto gave birth there.Inancient Cretan history Leto was worshipped at Phaistos and in Cretan mythologyLeto gave birth to Apollo and Artemis at the islands known today as thePaximadia.

A scholium of Servius on Aeneid iii. 72 accounts for the island's archaicname Ortygia by asserting that Zeus transformed Leto into a quail (ortux) inorder to prevent Hera from finding out his infidelity, and Kenneth McLeishsuggested further that in quail form Leto would have given birth with as fewbirth-pains as a mother quail suffers when it lays an egg.

The myths also differ as to whether Artemis was born first, or Apollo. Moststories depict Artemis as born first, becoming her mother's mid-wife upon thebirth of her brother Apollo.

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