下面新東方網雅思頻道為大家整理介紹古希臘神話中的十二主神，烤鴨們可以對這十二主神和他們的故事有一個簡單的了解，在雅思口語考試中也許能用得上哦。
古希臘神話有新舊兩部神譜，十二諸神是新神譜系的十二位神仙，雷神宙斯、天后赫拉、海皇波塞冬、火焰女神赫斯提亞、大地女神德墨忒爾、美神阿弗洛迪斯、太陽神阿波羅、女戰神雅典娜、戰神阿瑞斯、月神阿爾特彌斯、眾神使者赫爾墨斯、工神赫菲斯託斯。十二個主神都有鮮明的性格與七情六慾，具有人的性格和情緒，具有超人的特殊本領。
阿爾忒彌斯Artemis
雅思口語素材：古希臘12主神介紹(阿爾忒彌斯)
阿爾忒彌斯 (希臘文 Αρτεμιδ;拉丁文 Artemis)，羅馬神話中的黛安娜。掌管狩獵，照顧婦女分娩，保護反抗和蔑視愛神的青年男女。曾與孿生兄弟阿波羅一起，殺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，有專為她修築的亞底米神廟。
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 indeed the goddess herself was originally pre-Greek. Homer refers to her as Artemis Agrotera, 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) Ἄρτεμις, (genitive)Ἀρτέμιδος) was often described as the daughter of Zeus and Leto, 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 huntress carrying a bow and arrows. The deer and the cypress were sacred to her. In later Hellenistic times, she even assumed the ancient role of Eileithyia in aiding childbirth.
Birth
Various conflicting accounts are given in Classical Greek mythology of the birth of Artemis and her twin brother, Apollo. All accounts agree, however, that she was the daughter of Zeus and Leto and that she was the twin sister of Apollo.
An account by Callimachus has it that Hera forbade Leto to give birth on either terra firma (the mainland) or on an island. Hera was angry with Zeus, her husband, because he had impregnated Leto. But the island of Delos (or Ortygia in the Homeric Hymn to Artemis) disobeyed Hera, and Leto gave birth there.In ancient Cretan history Leto was worshipped at Phaistos and in Cretan mythology Leto gave birth to Apollo and Artemis at the islands known today as the Paximadia.
A scholium of Servius on Aeneid iii. 72 accounts for the island's archaic name Ortygia by asserting that Zeus transformed Leto into a quail (ortux) in order to prevent Hera from finding out his infidelity, and Kenneth McLeish suggested further that in quail form Leto would have given birth with as few birth-pains as a mother quail suffers when it lays an egg.
The myths also differ as to whether Artemis was born first, or Apollo. Most stories depict Artemis as born first, becoming her mother's mid-wife upon the birth of her brother Apollo.
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古希臘羅馬神話裡的神明繁多(羅馬神話裡的主神和神譜大致上與希臘神話相同，但在名稱上有很大差異)，其中最主要的為十二大主神。他們是：
1、宙斯Zeus：天神之父，也是眾神之神，地上萬物的最高統治者。用雷霆和叫做「埃奎斯」的神盾治理天和地。同時，宙斯還是個花心大蘿蔔，到處拈花惹草使他的妻子赫拉嫉妒。 <詳細>
2、赫拉Hera：宙斯的妻子，神聖的婚姻女神，掌管婚姻，捍衛家庭。赫拉相當冷靜並且擁有美好的身材。性格特徵是嫉妒。 <詳細>
3、波塞冬Poseidon：海神，僅次於宙斯的強大的掌權者。波塞冬具有強大的力量，但他是一個頭腦簡單的神。他的兵器是三叉戟。 <詳細>
4、赫斯提亞Hestia：爐灶、火焰女神。謙讓、隨和、心地善良，深受眾神的愛戴。 <詳細>
5、德墨忒爾Demeter：穀物、大地女神。她有著溫和的態度、熱情的笑容，但她很膽小。 <詳細>
6、阿佛洛狄忒Aphrodite：愛和美的女神。就是人們常說的維納斯。她擁有白瓷般的肌膚，是個金髮碧眼的美人。她是優雅和迷人的混合體，所有她的行為和語言都值得保留並用作典範。 <詳細>
7、阿波羅Apollon：太陽神，同時也是音樂、預言、弓箭、醫療之神。阿波羅是男神中最英俊的，他快樂、聰明，擁有陽光般明亮的氣質，總是充滿了勇氣和力量，女人們都喜歡他。 <詳細>
8、雅典娜Athena：主管勝利、智慧和技藝的戰爭女神。她是從父親宙斯的腦袋裡誕生的女神，少言寡語，極具智慧，外表很酷，擁有很多「fans」。 <詳細>
9、阿瑞斯Ares：戰神。總是一身盔甲，長相英俊，但因脾氣暴躁喜歡大喊大叫眾神都不太喜歡他，但偏偏愛與美的女神阿佛洛狄忒鍾情於他。 <詳細>
10、阿爾忒彌斯Arthemis：月亮和狩獵女神，又是美麗而純潔的處女神。她非常迷人，思維敏捷，做事果斷，奔跑迅速，因此總是不可能在一個地方逗留太長的時間。 <詳細>
11、赫爾墨斯Hermes：宙斯的隨從，牧童和遊子之神。他是位兼具才華和魅力的神，常帶著惡作劇般的微笑，行動迅速，是眾神中最忙碌的一個。眾神都很喜歡他。 <詳細>
12、赫菲斯託斯Hephaestus：手藝異常高超的鐵匠之神。他又駝又瘸，是眾神中最醜陋的神。但他的心地非常善良。 <詳細>
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