1, Atlas: Dare to take responsibility and hold up the sky.
Atlas is a giant god in ancient Greek mythology. He was convicted by Zeus and punished for propping up the sky with his shoulders. He is a victim, a devotee and a self-reliant person. Without him, the sky would fall. Now the word "Atlas" is often used to refer to the elites in society or the mainstay of the team, that is, those who dare to take responsibility and are willing to contribute.
Applicable theme: responsibility, responsibility and dedication.
2. Atlas: Relax and turn to stone.
It is said that Atlas, the giant, feels tired after holding the sky for too long. One day, a friend cut off Medusa's head and passed by Atlas. Medusa is a monster. Anyone who directly sees her head will turn into a stone statue. Atlas said to his friend, "I'm tired." Please point Medusa's head at me and turn me into a stone. " My friend agreed and turned him into a stone mountain, the famous Atlas Mountain.
Applicable theme: slack off, start and end.
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. 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 the muse as a metaphor for literature, writing and inspiration.
Applicable themes: culture, art and inspiration.
4. Sai Ren is singing.
Sai Ren is a siren with a face and a fish body in Greek mythology, who lives near Messina Strait. She has a heavenly voice. She often lures passers-by with songs, causing the ship to hit the rocks and sink, and the crew to become Sai Ren's belly meal. When the hero Odysseus led the fleet through, he ordered the sailors to seal their ears with wax and tie themselves to the mast with ropes before crossing safely.
Applicable theme: temptation, (overcoming/resisting) temptation.
5. The Golden Apple of Eris
In Greek mythology, Eris is the goddess of dispute and discord. Legend has it that a king in Greece got married and invited all the gods except Eris to attend. Eris was very angry and determined to take revenge. He secretly threw a golden apple at the wedding scene and wrote, "For the most beautiful goddess." On the spot, Hera, Athena, the goddess of wisdom, and Aphrodite, the goddess of love, were angered, and finally the Trojan War lasted for ten years.
Subject of application: controversy and provocation.
6. Marion effect of leather.
King Pygmalion of Cyprus fell in love with a beautiful girl carved with ivory. He named her, put on beautiful clothes, and prayed that the girl could become a real person every day. Later, his behavior touched the god of love in heaven, who turned the sculpture into a real girl and married Puymaly Weng. This is the "pygmalion effect" effect. It tells us that expectation and praise can work miracles.
Applicable theme: expectation, praise, miracle.
7. Sword of Damocles.
The sword of Damocles is used to indicate constant danger. Derived from ancient Greek legends. King theseus of Dionysus invited his minister Damocles to dinner and ordered him to sit under a cold shining sword with horse mane. The resulting foreign allusions mean that people are in a state of crisis, or have a sense of crisis at any time, which sounds an alarm in their hearts.
Applicable theme: sense of crisis, be prepared for danger in times of peace.
8. Pandora's Box.
Pandora was the first woman created by Zeus. As a punishment for Prometheus stealing fire, she gave it to her brother Epimetheus as her wife. When we got married, God finally gave Pandora a small box.
Pandora opened the box out of curiosity and released all the evils in the world-greed, nothingness, slander, jealousy, pain and so on. When she closed the box again, she locked her hope in it. Later generations used Pandora's Box to refer to disasters and disasters.
Applicable subjects: disaster, curiosity.
9. Achilles heel
Achilles is the son of the fairy Sitis. In order to make his precious son into a golden bell jar, Sidis dipped it upside down into the Styx when he was just born. Unfortunately, his mother's heel accidentally came out of the water, leaving a "dead hole" all over him.
Later, Achilles was shot in the ankle by Apollo, the sun god, and died. Later generations often use "Achilles' heel" as a metaphor for the truth that even powerful heroes have fatal loopholes or weaknesses.
Applicable subject: weakness, defect.
10, Aetna effect
Antai was born by Hercules, Poseidon and Gaia in ancient Greek mythology. His strength is boundless and invincible. Because as long as he leans on the earth, he can draw infinite strength from Mother Earth and continue fighting until he defeats his opponent. His opponent discovered the secret, lured him off the ground and killed him in the air.
Applicable themes: individuals and groups, individuals and teams, source of strength.
1 1, the arrow of cupid
Cupid has two special arrows, one is called the arrow of love, the other is called the arrow of unrequited love. One day, Apollo saw Cupid playing with a bow and arrow and verbally warned him. Cupid was angered. He shot the arrow of love at Apollo when he was not looking. Apollo fell in love with a girl named Daphne.
Cupid shot another rude arrow at Daphne. Daphne hates love very much. Apollo struggled to find Daphne, who turned into a laurel and fled Apollo. But Apollo still loved her, so he stayed under the laurel tree forever.
Applicable themes: relative, infatuation and ruthlessness.
12, the sphinx problem
The sphinx is a monster with a sphinx in Greek mythology. She sat on the cliff near the city of Tebai and asked passers-by with a riddle. Those who can't answer will be eaten by it. The riddle is: "What animal walks on four legs in the morning, two legs at noon and three legs at night?" Oedipus guessed the correct answer, and the answer was "man". The Sphinx was ashamed and jumped off the cliff and died.
Applicable themes: puzzles, wisdom.