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图书名称：《欧洲文化渊源教程》

【作　者】刘浩，黄奕主编

【丛书名】西安交通大学本科“十三五”规划教材

【页 数】 236

【出版社】 西安：西安交通大学出版社 , 2019.12

【ISBN号】978-7-5693-1359-8

【价 格】38.00

【分 类】文化史-欧洲-汉、英

【参考文献】 刘浩，黄奕主编. 欧洲文化渊源教程. 西安：西安交通大学出版社, 2019.12.

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《欧洲文化渊源教程》内容提要：

本教材获得2018年西安交通大学十三五规划教材第二批建设项目立项。教材是以2016版《大学英语教学指南》中的一般要求和较高要求为目标，以依托内容、输出驱动的教学理念为依据而编写的大学英语拓展课教材。本教材以欧洲文明两大基石-希腊神话故事与圣经故事为载体，以兴趣为引导，选取了希腊神话和圣经中的一些经典故事，辅以语言技能练习以及文化讨论，使学生在了解欧洲文明渊源的同时，培养和提高他们的语言技能和文化素养，使语言和内容的学习相辅相成，特色鲜明。

《欧洲文化渊源教程》内容试读

UNIT 1

Creation in Greek Myths

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In this unit,you are going to

identify,the chief primeval gods:explain the kinship of the chief gods:retell the stories in Creation myths:

O write a narrative summary:

expand vocabulary through word formation of root

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I.Listen to the passage on Creation Myth and fill in

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the blanks with the words you hear.

Like all mythologies of the past,the Greek Mythology started with the

Creation myth,the story that explains the

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of life and of all

things.This story is in essence an attempt to

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to impose

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in the universe and explain where we came from

to define the place of individuals,races and all people in the universe

The most detailed

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of early classical Creation myths

comes to us from Theogony,a poem

by Hesiod,a Greek

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It is worthwhile to note that in Hesiod's narration about the Creationmyth,from Uranus to Cronus,and then from Cronus to Zeus,the powerwas

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by the successor,who was challenging his predecessor's

reign through

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Il.Listen to the sentences and fill in the blanks withthe words you hear.Then work out the meaning of eachsentence with a partner.

1.The e-tail titan prospered by continuing to offer low prices andsuperb

in hard times.

2.Plato describes a series of worldwide floods culminating in thedeluge of Deucalion,dated by Greek historians to

about

10,000B.C

3.Prometheus himself knew that some day he should beand his knowledge made him strong to endure.

4.When my first child was born in 1994,e-mail seemed to me somekind of Promethean gift perfectly designed to help meto work at home.

5.Scientific inventions can

on the other hand,they

sometimes might open Pandora's Box

6.Many publishing executives like to argue that the

could usher in a golden age of reading,in which many more people will beexposed to digital texts.

Stories

Story One

I.Match the major characters in the story with theproper information after your first reading.

1.Chaos

a.the goddess of the Earth

Tartarus

b.the deepest region in the Underworld

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3.Uranus

c.the beginning of the universe

4.Gaea

d.the god of the heavens

5.Cronus

e.the youngest Titan who dethroned his father

Il.Fill in the blanks with the missing informationafter your second reading.

1.It was

that made it possible to produce offspring.

2.Gaea alone gave birth to

who became her husband later.

3.Uranus was a bad father and he imprisoned his children,and Hecatoncheires,in their mother's womb

4.The

were the offspring of Gaea and Uranus.They were

spared from imprisonment,and became the first gods and goddesses.

Creation of the Universe

In the beginning there was only Chaos,the void or a formlessconfusion.Then out of Chaos appeared Nyx(Night)and Erebus(Darkness).

All else was empty,silent,endless and dark.Then also from Chaos,Eros(Love),Gaea (Earth)and Tartarus (the deepest region in the Underworld)came into being.It was Eros that made it possible to produce offspring

Then Erebus slept with his sister Nyx,who gave birth to Ether(heavenly light)and Day (earthly light).Then Nyx alone produced Doom,

Fate,Death,Sleep,Nemesis and others.

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Meanwhile Gaea alone gave birth to Uranus,the heavens.Uranusgrew as huge as Gaea and enveloped her.Uranus became the ruler of theuniverse after marrying his mother Gaea.Together they produced the three

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Cyclopes,the three Hecatoncheires,and twelve Titans.The Cyclopes weregiants,with a single huge eye in their foreheads.The Hecatoncheires werealso monstrous in size and strength,each having one hundred hands andfifty heads

However,Uranus was a bad father and husband.He hated his uglychildren and imprisoned the six gigantic creatures by pushing them intothe hidden places of the earth,Gaea's womb.

The Titans were also his offspring,but they were smaller in size and

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fairer in looks.Unlike their ugly brothers they weren't imprisoned,andbecame the first gods and goddesses.

Imprisoning the six gigantic creatures within her body caused Gaeaa great deal of pain.She was furious at the treatment of her earlier sons,and plotted against Uranus.She made a stone sickle and tried to get herchildren to attack Uranus.All were too afraid except the youngest Titan,

Cronus.

Gaea and Cronus set up an ambush of Uranus as he lay with Gaea atnight.Cronus grabbed his father and castrated him with the stone sickle,throwing the severed genitals into the sea.The fate of Uranus was notclear.But as he departed,he prophesied that Cronus would in turn beoverthrown by his own son.(331 words)

Story Two

Answer the following questions briefly after yourfirst reading.

1.Who were the parents of Zeus?

2.How did Zeus free his siblings?

Il.Decide whether the following statements are TRUEor FALSE after your second reading.

1.Gaea was angry with Cronus because Cronus swallowed

his children when they were born.

2.Rhea gave a stone to Cronus who swallowed it and

assumed that he swallowed his sixth child.

3.Zeus spent his early life on Crete before he came back to

his parents.

4.Styx,Prometheus and Epimetheus were among Zeus'allies

in the battle against the Titans.

5.Atlas,who had fought against Zeus,was punished with his

fellow Titans in Tartarus.

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Rule of the Titans and Rise of the

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Cronus succeeded his father as the ruler of the universe,and becamethe leader of the Titans.He shared the world with his brothers and sisters,and married his sister Rhea.Under his rule the Titans had many offspring.

He ruled for many ages.

The whole purpose that Gaea instructed Cronus and the Titans torevolt against Uranus'rule was to release her other sons from Tartarus.

Cronus,however,did not release his brothers,the Hecatoncheires and the

Cyclopes,from Tartarus.This made Gaea very angry with her son.Gaea,as Uranus had done,prophesied that Cronus would in turn be overthrownby his own son.

To avoid this fate,Cronus swallowed each of his children as they wereborn.Rhea was angry at the treatment of her children and plotted against

Cronus.When it came time to give birth to her sixth child,Rhea hidherself,and then she left the child to be raised by nymphs.To conceal heract,she wrapped a stone in swaddling cloth and passed it off as the baby to

Cronus,who swallowed it.

This child was Zeus,and he grew into a handsome youth on Crete.

Zeus consulted Metis,the Titan goddess of prudence,good counsel,wisdom and craftiness,on how to defeat Cronus.She prepared a potion for

Cronus,designed to make him vomit up the other children.

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Rhea convinced Cronus to accept his son,and Zeus was allowedto return to Mount Olympus as Cronus'cupbearer.This gave Zeus theopportunity to slip Cronus the specially prepared drink.This worked as

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planned and the other five children were vomited up.Being gods they wereunharmed.They were thankful to Zeus and made him their leader.

War broke out between the Titans against the younger gods known asthe Olympians,led by Zeus.Cronus and other Titans fought to retain theirpower.Atlas became their leader in battle and it seemed that for some timethey would win and put the young gods down.

Zeus and his brothers required aids,since they were outnumbered.Ofall the sons of Uranus and Gaea,Oceanus had chosen to remain neutral.

Styx,the eldest daughter of Oceanus and Tethys,was the first to change side.

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