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The Immortals

 

Aphrodite

is the Greek goddess of love, beauty, pleasure, and procreation.

Her Roman equivalent is the goddess Venus.

She is identified with the planet Venus.

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Apollo

 is one of the most important and complex of the Olympian deities in classical Greek and Roman religion and Greek and Roman mythology.

The ideal of the kouros (a beardless, athletic youth), Apollo has been variously recognized as a god of light and the sun, truth and prophecy,

healing, plague, music, poetry, and more.

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Artemis

Her Roman equivalent is Diana.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 huntress carrying a bow and arrows.

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Demeter

is the goddess of the harvest, who presided over grains and the fertility of the earth.

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Athena

 is the goddess of wisdom, courage, inspiration, civilization, law and justice, strategic war, mathematics, strength,

strategy, the arts, crafts, and skill in ancient Greek religion and mythology.

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Hades

was the ancient Greek god of the underworld. Eventually, the god's name came to designate the abode of the dead

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the three virgin goddesses

 

Artemis

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Hestia

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Pygmalion effect(比馬龍效應)

pygmalion_effect

 

The Pygmalion effect, or Rosenthal effect, is the phenomenon whereby the greater the expectation placed upon people,

the better they perform. The effect is named after the Greek myth of Pygmalion, a sculptor who fell in love with a statue he had carved.

 

 

 

-cracy(govern)

democracy=people+govern=民主政體

theocracy=theo+cracy=God+govern=神權政治

bureaucracy=官僚主義

monocracy=one+govern=獨裁政治

 

-cide(killing)


 

patricide 弒父;弒父者

insecticide 殺蟲劑

homicide 殺人犯

genocide 種族滅絕;集體屠殺

bactericide 殺菌劑

biocide 能破壞生物的物質,如殺蟲劑或抗生素等

 

 

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