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Greece Mythology Story, this book is full of wisdom and magic of colors. It narrated the story of deities and the legend of heroes. The gods story involves the universe and humanitys origin, the production of the god and the other contents. In Greece mythology story, whether it is gods or deified persons (heroes), all of them have human emotions and human imprint in their thought. They have the same emotion of human, comparatively closer to the humanity. From the supremacy of Zeus, down to the small god who does not have the power and holds themselves aloof from the worlds authority, they are permitted all some persons emotion; they can develop the relationship with other gods even with the human beings. This is the most distinction from the Chinese mythology story. Although the Greek Mythology Story mainly eulogizes the deeds of heroes, I thought it also deeply expose and criticize the ugly of human nature.In the introduction of this book, the author introduced twelve lord gods in the Olympics Mountain to us. Each of the twelve lord gods has their own family pedigree, and the perpendicular family system, they govern the nature and each kind of phenomenon and the thing of life, so as to form the Olympus god system and the entire phenomenon and things which take the Zeus as the centre. The legend of heroes origins from the worship to the ancestor, it was one kind of review of the ancient Greece person to the ancient times history. The legendary heroes mostly are the generations of gods and men or the demigod heroes. Their physical strength is excellent, and all of them are extraordinary brave, which manifested the heroic spirit and the tenacious will of human to conquer the nature, and they become the embodiment of peoples collective strength and wisdom in ancient. The hero in the mythology has the bright superhuman strength, but they are not the god. Only few of them can ascend the heaven and became the god if they get the confirmation of Zeus through their work hard. So when I read this book in the first, I can not understand what it talks about, because it does not have any coherent in the front chapters, but the later chapters are especially caught my eyes. After I have read off this book, there are still some one give me a deeply impression. The first is the father of gods: Zeus. Zeus to my first impression is that he is very dissolute. Zeus is the father of all things, and he has a phoenix from the ashes, no one can hurt him, so he can love any girl he want, he betrayed his wife, but to lavish the love to the human and demigods daughter, and some times his love can not bring the happiness for others, on the contrary, it is a desert. For me, the most deeply impression is the story of Zeus and Io. Io is princess of the original Greek people, and she is very beautiful, when Zeus saw her at the first eyes, he loved her. Zeus hoped Io could become his wife and he used the sweet language to lure and tease Io. But the girl was very afraid, and she escaped the aspiration of Zeus, because Zeus is the dominator of all things, Io could not escape from the palm of Zeus, and at last, Io was caught by Zeus. Of course, all these things could not got away from the mother of gods：Heras eyes. Because of Zeuss disloyalty, Heras suspicion was growing with each passing day. So when she knew her husband did the betray things again, she was very angry. In order to revenge her husband, Hera changed Io into a snow-white heifer, and set Argus with his hundred eyes to watch her, which made Io could not reunite with her family and could not went back her fathers site. The poor Io could to do nothing but to send out the voice of moo-moo. At last, Zeus was not really cruel enough to looked Io receives suffers, and then he begged Hera to put her.From this story, I thought of our life time. First the power and wealthy can not bringing the true love for people. Even Zeus has the biggest power and wealthy, he still couldnt win Ios heart. Second the envy of women can destroy the reason of them, and made them cruel. Heras envy to Io made her forgot she was the mother of gods and her duty. Last, to be a god, his duty is to protect people from the disasters rather than bring the desert for people. If Zeus had not been pursued Io, Io could not suffered so much torments. Besides, I understand that the gods have their own desires and emotions.Second is the great hero Heracles. Heracles was Zeuss illegitimate child. Because Hera does not know where Heracles comes from, she fed him and made he later owned immortality body. But after Hera knew the Hercules identity, she was regretting not to kill him. Because Heracles was the son of Zeus, he has the supernatural power and the strength which the average man not once had When Heracles faced to choose his own path of life; he didnt choose the happiness goddess but the virtue goddess. So in his later life, he did many benefit things for people. Especially the Eurystheus assigned ten tasks to him, Hercules fight the Nepali great lion bravely, kills hydra, and removes harmful things for the people, which showed the brave and tenacious of Heracles. Later Eurystheus let Heracles to capture the alive roe on the Gs law Mountain, and the alive boar on the E law Mann Torres Mountain, clean the barn in the Ogas, drives away Ting method Ross lake queer bird, tames the bull in Island of Crete, overpowered the mare in Diomedes, conquer the Amazon people. Heracles successfully accomplished the tasks, which are prominent displays in addition to wise and wisdom of Heracles. Although Heracles got the help from many gods, it also more display his fearless and wisdom. Later, Eurystheus know none of these things could stump Heracles, and did not killed him, he let Heracles to do the matter which the mortal not impossible to complete, it is let Heracles to hold back the giant herds of Geryones, pick the Golden Apples of Hesperides and taken back to the hounds of hell Cerberus, but at this time, Heracles accomplished the tasks again. All these things fully displayed Heracles risk-taking, fearless and understood take things by strategy. At the same time, Hercules do these matters unfolded the humanity use the tenacious will to defeat the bad natural environment. But the ending of Hercules is actually beyond expectation, he finally was killed the toxicant which the centaur Nessus gave to his wife. I can learn some philosophy of life from the heroic deeds of Heracles. First of all, when we choose our life rode, we must be carefully and we must resist the temptation. We cannot indulge in a life of pleasure and comfort. We have to do something good for ourselves and others, just like Heracles. Second, when our competitors give us the difficult problem, do not refuse it, because it is a good opportunity to train and achieve ourselves. In the book Heracles is not willing to render a service to a weak people than himself, but he can not disobey the oracle which made his heroic career. Third, from the death of Heracles, we can learn that we can not believe strangers words easily and also can not believe the slanderous talk easily, or it will only do something we regret. At last, in the book makes me most affected is the love between Admetus and his wife Alcestis. Two of them married life is exactly opposite of married life with Hera and Zeus. When Admetus faced with death, his wife was brave to stand up, and instead of him went to the hell, So that Admetus managed to escape death. Before the death, Alcestis said to her husband, “your life are precious than my life, so I am willing to die for you. Without you, I am not willing to live.” Admetus also vowed to his wife in tears, she is his wife when she is living, after her death, she is still his wife. When his wife has been dead, Admetus was very sad, and has not remarried. When the hero Heracles knew this thing, Heracles brought back Alcestis from the hell, and gave back to Admetus. But Alcestis wore the veil at that time, Admetus did not know the lady who stood in front of him was his wife, and he was unwilling to break the premise to his wife, so he shirked this gift again and again. But he could not stand the persuasion of his friend, and he did not want to make his friend disappoint, so he ordered the servant to take the woman back to his bedroom. But when he lifted the womans veil, he was surprised, because the woman is just his late wife. Then they hugged each other happily. We need to understand that: We live not only for ourselves, but also for people we love and who love us. When we meet one person we really love, we must be sincere and willing to pay, because love happiness is depends upon two people to manage together. When our lover involved in the difficulties, we must go with our lover bravely and share his or her trouble and pain rather than abandon each other at the zero hour. When we lost our precious things, we should not always addict into the sad, and we should not forget there are still some good things around us, we should be glad to accept other beautiful things. The life is not always filled with despair, because the lucky goddess perhaps can bless you before you are absolutely despairing.Only one thing as I am not able to understand is the complexity of their emotional life and the relationship between their marriages. According to the common sense, the close relatives are