*神话故事英语（4篇）

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短篇英语神话故事【第一篇】

Apollo among the crowd of olympian gods the one most widely admired was was the son of zeus and let to greek mythology，leto was driven by hera from land to land at last poseidon took pity on her and brought the island of delos out of water for her to live on. There she gave birth to the twins ，apollo and artemis. apollo was me sun-god. He wore a purple usually sat in his bright eastern palace early in the morning and madeready to start his daily journey across the sky. during the day hed rove his carriage of gold and ivory ， and brought light，life and love to the great world below. iate in the afternoon he came to the end of his journey in the far western sea and got on his golden boat to return to his eastern home. apollo was the god of music and poetry. He could stir up all feelings are expressed in lofty songs.

With his lyre of gold and the sweet accents of his godlike voice heled the choir of the muses at pleasant music from his lyre was so exciting that stones marched into their places in rhythmic time and of their own will when he helped poseidonbuild up the walls of troy. on one occasion，invited to a contest by the human musician marsyas，he won and then flayed him to death for his another occasion，he lost out topan at a musical contest and turned the ears of the judge ，king midas，into those of an ass. his son ，orpheus ，took over such skill from the father that his lyre moved man and animals alike. apollo stood for youthful and manly goldenhair ，stately manner and air all combined to make him the admiration of the beautiful girl，by the name of clytle ，was so fond of his beauty and glory that from dawn to dusk she knelt on the ground ，her hands outstretched towards the sungod ，and her eyes looked at his golden wheeled carriage racing across the blue her love was not returned，she had never changed her mind about gods were moved at the sad sight ，and changed her into a sunflower.

短篇英语神话故事【第二篇】

in the han dynasty in qiancheng lived a man by the name of dong yong. his mother died when he was a child. while living with his father, he worked hard in the fields. each time they went out, he would put his old father on a small cart and follow it on foot. when his father died, he was willing to sell himself into slavery for a little money for the funeral. knowing that he was a virtuous man, his master gave him ten thousand coins and allowed him to go home.

dong was in mourning for three years. when it was over, he decided to return to his master to work as a slave. on his way he met a woman who said to him, "i am willing to marry you." so they went together to his master. "i have given you money," the master said to him. "thanks to your generous help," dong said, "i was able to bury my father. although i am a man of low birth, i know i ought to work for you to repay your kindness." then the master asked, "what is your wife good at?" "she can weave," dong answered. "if you insist on doing something for me," said the master. "please ask your wife to weave a hundred bolts of fine silk for me." dong's wife set to work in the master's house. ten days later the hundred bolts were ready.

when she came out, she said to dong, "i am a weaver in heaven. the emperor of heaven ordered me to help you pay your debt because he was moved by your filial piety." after saying these words she flew into the sky and vanished.

短篇英语神话故事【第三篇】

On Fajiu Hill grew a lot of mulberry trees. Among them lived a bird which looked like a crow, but had a colourful head, a white bill and two red claws. Its call sounded like its name: Jingwei. The bird was said to be Emperor Yandi's youngest daughter, who, while playing on the East Sea, had been drowned and never returned. She had turned into Jingwei, and the bird would often carry bits of twigs and stones all the way from the west mountains to the East Sea to fill it up.

短篇英语神话故事【第四篇】

Prometheus prometheus was a titan .in the war between zeus the giants he had stood on the side of the new of the clay he made the first man ，to whom athena gave soul and holy spent a lot of time and energy in creating the gift of fire raised man above all animals .

Later，there held a joint meeting of gods and men. the meeting was to decide what part of burnt animals should begiven to gods and what to cut up an ox and divided it into two parts ：under the skin he placed the fresh，and under the fat he put the bones，for he knew the selfish zeus loved fat. zeus saw through the trick and felt displeased at the prometheus' favor towards in a masterful way he took away the gift of fire from ，prometheus managed to steal fire from heaven and secretly brought it down into an anger at this unjustified act of rebellion ，zeus let the other gods chain prometheus to a rock on mountain caucasus ，where a hungry eagle ever tore at his liver which ever grew period of pain was to be thirty-thousand faced his bitter fate firmly and never lost courage before last heracles made prometheus and zeus restore to friend ship，when heracles came over in search of the golden apple and killed the eagle and set the friend of mankind free.