[阅读理解] Ancient Greek used zodiac signs (星座) to judge a person’s character traits. Today people are still fascinated with trying to figure out people’s personality type based on science.According to The Washington Post, a new study published in the journal Nature Human Behavior on Septe...
Greek : The Greek name of the constellation. Akkadian & Sumerian : The old Eastern name for the constellation, predating the Greek. *NAME A character associated with the constellation in surviving compilations of star myths.* The form and arrangment of the heavenly constellations was adopted by...
A late classical development of her character, made Selene the goddess of lunacy.Nonnus, Dionysiaca 44. 198 ff (trans. Rouse) (Greek epic C5th A.D.) : "Dionysos (Dionysus) waited for darksome night, and appealed in these words to circle Mene (Moon) [Selene] in heaven : ‘O ...
Mars was identified with the Greek god Ares, whose myths were reinterpreted in Roman literature and art under the name of Mars. But the character and dignity of Mars differed in fundamental ways from that of his Greek counterpart, who is often treated with contempt and revulsion in Greek ...
Such is the character of the fiery clouds, with their twin birth of lightnings and thunders together. Zeus the father fought on : raised and hurled his familiar fire against his adversary, piercing his lions, and sending a fiery whirlwind from heaven to strike the battalion of innumerable ...
His descendants are very numerous, and the surnames and epithets given him by the poets are mostly descriptive of his character as the sun. Temples of Helios (êlieia) seem to have existed in Greece at a very early time (Hom. Od. xii. 346), and in later times we find his worship ...