1, Pandora's box
Pandora is the first earth woman in Greek mythology. After Prometheus stole the skyfire from the world, Zeus, the Lord God, ordered God to mold a beautiful young girl out of clay, named Pandora, which means "a woman with all talents", gave her a gift box, and then betrothed her to Epimetheus, Prometheus' younger brother (meaning "the latter").
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.
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, Dionysius made him sit on the throne of the emperor, with a sword tied with only one horsehair on his head.
This told him that although he ascended the throne, the sword could fall at any time. The emperor has no happiness, but he always has worries. People often use this allusion to describe a potential crisis that may occur at any time.
3. 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.
4. Pygmalion
Pygmalion is the king of Cyprus in Greek mythology. He hates women and decides never to get married. He carved a beautiful ivory statue with magical skills and fell in love with her. He caressed her like a wife, dressed her and begged God to let her be his wife. Aphrodite, the goddess of love, was moved by him, gave life to the statues and married them.
"pygmalion effect" was later used in educational psychology, also known as "expectation effect" or "Rosenthal effect", which means that teachers have different expectations of students and apply different methods to them, so students are affected differently.
5. judas kiss
Judas is one of the 12 disciples of Jesus Christ in the Bible. Although Jesus preached a new road and won the support of the people, it aroused the hatred of Jewish elders and priests.
They bought Judas with 30 silver coins and asked him to help identify Jesus. When they went to Kimani Garden to catch Jesus, Judas pretended to meet him, hug him and kiss him. Jesus was immediately arrested and later crucified. People use "judas kiss" as a metaphor for shameful betrayal.