1, Pandora's box

Pandora is the first earth woman in Greek mythology. After Prometheus stole skyfire from the world, Zeus ordered God to make a beautiful young girl out of clay, named Pandora, which means "a woman with all kinds of talents".

And gave her a gift box, and then betrothed her to Prometheus' younger brother Epimetheus (meaning "Monday morning quarterback"). Epimetheus took the gift box regardless of taboos, and Pandora took the opportunity to open it, so all kinds of bad habits, disasters and diseases immediately flew out from it.

There is only one beautiful thing left in the box: hope. But before hope flew out, Pandora closed the box forever. Pandora's box is used as a metaphor for the root of disaster.

2. Damocles Sword

Damocles was a favorite of Dionysus, a tyrant in Greek mythology. He often said that the emperor was blessed to please them. On one occasion, Dionysus Hughes asked him to sit on the emperor's throne, with a sword tied with only a horse's hair on his head, and told him that although he boarded the throne, the sword might fall at any time. The emperor was not blessed, but he always had something on his mind. People often use this allusion to describe a potential crisis that may occur at any time.

3. Muse, the goddess of literature, art, music and art.

Muse is the general name of nine goddesses of literature and science in Greek mythology. They are all daughters of God and the goddess of memory. Headed by Apollo, the god of music and poetry, they are in charge of history, tragedy, comedy, lyric poetry, dance, epic, love poetry, ode and astronomy respectively. Ancient Greek poets and singers turned to the Muse for inspiration. Later, people often used "muse" to describe literature, writing and inspiration.

4. The Mystery of the Sphinx

The Sphinx is a monster that hurts people with hidden mysteries in Greek mythology. It was the largest Sphinx before pyramid of khufu in Egypt. The question he asked Oedipus was: What walks on four feet in the morning, two feet at noon and three feet at night? Oedipus replied: it is a person.

In the morning of life, he was a child, crawling on two legs and two hands; At the noon of his life, he became a mature man, walking only on two legs; In his later years, he was old and weak and had to walk with crutches, so he was called three feet. Oedipus was right. The sphinx fell off the cliff in shame and died. The mystery of the Sphinx is often used as a metaphor for complex, mysterious and incomprehensible problems.

The origin of myth:

Myth is a collective oral story created by people, which shows people's worship and struggle for super power, their understanding and imagination of ideal pursuit and cultural phenomena. It belongs to the category of folk literature, which has high philosophical and artistic quality. For thousands of years, it has been the immortal creative source of literati and folk artists, and has a far-reaching impact on future generations.

Myth is not a scientific reflection of real life, but the result of human thinking and exploration of nature and their own imagination in ancient times.