Chapter 67 splendor of ancient greece

Dear Xiaowen: Edgar Allan Poe (Edgar Allan Poe, 1809-1849) was expelled from West Point (West Point Military Academy), but later West Point flattered him and erected a bronze statue of him.Did you notice it when you were at West Point?He is an American writer who lived to his father's age (forty years old) before he died. He is best at writing mystery and detective novels, and he is the one who pioneered mystery and detective novels.He is also a poet. He wrote a famous poem "To Helen" at the age of fourteen. The most famous line in the poem is: Your daffodil hair, classic face,

The splendor of the water god, take me to splendor of ancient greece The splendor of ancient Rome Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face, Thy Naiad airs, have brought me home To the glory that was Greece And the grandeur that was Rome Greek culture is the ancestor of Western Civilization; it is the grandma of the grandma of Western culture...  Now Western culture and Greek culture are closely related (related as closely as each breath is to the next) and can be seen everywhere. For example, in Poe's poem, hyacinth is mentioned as Hyacinthus, a beautiful boy in Greece.It was Apollo, the sun god, who killed Hyacinthus by mistake with a discus.

Apollo is omnipresent, interfering everywhere. Although he is a god, he also participates in human disputes.Poe’s poem to Helen earlier, she caused Trojan war, she is a fairy (as beautiful as an angel from heaven; a stunning beauty) because she was the illegitimate daughter of Apollo’s father Zeus (Jupiter). Trojan war is the story of "Trojan Horse Massacre". The city of Troy is an unlucky city. It was destroyed nine times during the 1,800 years, and Helen was only the sixth time.Archaeologist H. Schliemann didn't know that there were so many Troy cities. He dug too far and found a city that was before the Troy Horse Massacre - even earlier - a thousand-year-old city.

In "Trojan Horse Massacre", Apollo is on the side of the city. Apollo's Priest is called Laocoon. He warns that there is a problem with the Trojan horse, so don't believe Greeks.Even though they brought presents, three of Laocoon and his son were bitten to death by two sea snakes. As a result, his warning was not believed, and finally the wooden horse was dragged into the city. In the middle of the night, Greeks jumped out of their stomachs. English proverb A cat has nine lives. (Cat has nine lives) City with nine lives is a set of this proverb. The Chinese say, "People are not sages, who can have no faults?" But foreigners say that sages have also had faults. In English, this Even Homer nods. Even Homer sometimes nods. (连罗马also doze off) Homer is the first western writer and is blind (one of the oldest Chinese writers Zuo Qiuming Tso Chiu-ming is also blind!) When Homer lives He was too poor to beg for food, and after his death, seven cities flattered him, saying that Homer was their hometown.

Seven wealthy towns contend for Homer dead, Through which the living Homer beggd his bread. —Thomas Seward: On Homer (1788) In Homer's Odyssey, it is said that the Greeks came back from Troy, and the road was hard.Their hero is Odysseus (called him Odysses in English), who took the Greeks to escape from the Lotus-Eaters and other terrible places. Wang Baochuan of China waited eighteen years for her husband to come back.Her record was broken by Penelope, Odysseus' wife, who waited twenty years for her husband. When Odysseus returned, only the old dog knew him. Although the city of Troy is unclear about Greece, it is not on a Greek island, it is in Turkey.

The largest city on the Greek island is Athens, named after Athena, the goddess of wisdom.You re-read the letter from your father on June 3, 5, and 31, and pay attention to the section "Transporting owls to Athens". In the Trojan war, Athena helped the Greeks. She sent two sea snakes and killed Laocoon and his son. , it can be seen that she has many tricks.Her dad is also Zues. Zeus ate her mother Metis before she was born because he was afraid that she would be too smart, but it was useless, Athena ran out of her father's head. The most famous place to worship Athena is the Partheon in the fifth century BC, on the Acropolis (The Acropolis), which is the most famous Greek building. The Acropolis rises proudly on 180-foot hill above the Attic Plain. The Parthenon and many large buildings were built in Golden Age of Pericles, 2400 years ago. There are many other buildings on The Acropolis, like The Caryatids.

Zeus, the father of Apollo, Helen, and Athena, is God, the God of China. He is a romantic ghost, and he has 21 children with 15 women, and each child is a celebrity.Of the fifteen women, he married only three, and none of the others.His brother is Pluto. Greek architecture was learned later, everywhere.The British philosopher AN Whitehead said in a passage that this kind of Greece is actually the least Greek, because the Greeks do not learn from others. (The most un-Greek thing we can do is copy the Greeks. For emphatically they were not copyists.) Xiaowen, find out the letters from Dad on June 4th, May, and March 1st, and look at the relationship between Socrates and other Philosophers and Alexander the Great. Alexander the Great was the most famous emperor of Greece. He fought all the way from his hometown in Macedenia to India. He popularized Greek culture to many places.

Zeus has a son named Heracles, said Heracles descendants are Alexander the Great, so always have a relationship with Zeus. When Alexander the Great hit the middle of Turkey, cut the Gordian knot (an intricate knot tied by Gordius, king of Phrygia, to be undone only by the person who should rule Asia. Alexander the Great cut it through with his sword.) in In Chinese, this is called "jue dao zhaan ma" (to find and use a quick, easy way out of a difficulty). At the same time as Aristotle, the teacher of Alexander the Great, there is another school of philosophers, they are cynic, that is, cynics. During the day, Diogenes lit a lantern and looked for people on the street, which meant that it was dark and people were not people. Alexander the Great went to visit Diogenes, but Diogenes told the emperor to go away and not block his sun.

Alexander the Great was very envious of this indifferent philosopher, so he said such a flattering and self-flattering sentence - "If I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes." (If I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes.) He can really talk! Greece is full of ancient monuments, so it is nostalgic. Greece has four or thirty-seven islands, which account for one-fifth of the country's area. The whole country is only one and a half times the size of Taiwan, and its population is only two-thirds of Taiwan's. The uniform of the evzones is a Greek trademark. dad October 12, 1975

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