Name: 美杜莎神話 - 勞拉-艾特肯-伯特 (The myth of Medusa - Laura Aitken-Burt)
Uploaded: 2025-06-13T14:43:14.000Z
Duration: 5 min 46 s

關係子句

Before her hair was a writhing nest of snakes and her eyes had the power to petrify, Medusa was a young woman who worshipped at the temple of Athena, the goddess of wisdom and war.

在美杜莎的頭髮變成蠕動的蛇窩，她的眼睛擁有石化的力量之前，她是一位在智慧和戰爭女神雅典娜的神廟裡做禮拜的年輕女子。

But all the while, as Medusa tended to Athena's shrine, Poseidon, god of the seas and horses, was watching her.

但就在美杜莎照看雅典娜神龕的同時，海神波塞冬也在注視著她。

And one night, he crept into the temple as Medusa prayed and assaulted her.

一天晚上，他趁美杜莎祈禱時悄悄潛入神廟，襲擊了她。

Athena reacted swiftly to the desecration of her shrine.

雅典娜對褻瀆她的聖地做出了迅速反應。

But instead of punishing Poseidon, she focused her wrath on Medusa.

但她沒有懲罰波塞冬，而是將怒火集中在美杜莎身上。

The young woman felt her body transform until she was a monstrous gorgon, her face framed by coils of hissing snakes.

年輕女子感覺到自己的身體發生了變化，直到她變成了一個畸形的巨龍，她的臉被一圈圈嘶嘶作響的蛇所包圍。

No man could freely look upon her again, for if they met her eyes, they'd instantly turn to stone.

沒有人可以隨意再看她一眼，因為一旦與她對視，他們就會立刻變成石頭。

Medusa sought refuge in a hidden cave inhabited by the world's two other gorgons, Steno and Euryale.

美杜莎在一個隱祕的洞穴中尋求庇護，這個洞穴裡住著世界上另外兩隻巨龍：斯泰諾（Steno）和尤利亞爾（Euryale）。

However, unlike Steno and Euryale, who could never die, Medusa remained mortal.

然而，與永遠不會死亡的斯泰諾和歐魯雅爾不同，美杜莎仍然是凡人。

Time passed, and would-be heroes journeyed to the cave to make their names by murdering Medusa, but fell to her gaze every time.

時間流逝，英雄們來到洞穴，想通過殺死美杜莎來揚名立萬，但每次都被她的目光所吸引。

This was the way of things until another young man named Perseus began his quest for glory, Medusa his intended trophy.

事情就是這樣，直到另一個名叫珀爾修斯的年輕人開始追求榮耀，美杜莎就是他的戰利品。

Perseus was born of the mortal princess, Danae, after Zeus impregnated her in the form of golden rain.

珀爾修斯是凡人公主達娜伊所生，宙斯用黃金雨讓她受孕。

However, Danae's father had received a prophecy foretelling that her son would kill him, so he locked Danae and Perseus in a chest and threw it into the sea.

然而，達娜伊的父親得到預言，說她的兒子會殺了他，於是他把達娜伊和珀爾修斯鎖在一個箱子裡，扔進了大海。

在眾神的保護下，他們倖存了下來。

But the king of their new land, Polydectes, lusted after Danae.

但他們新國家的國王波呂德克提斯卻對達娜產生了慾望。

She tried turning King Polydectes away to no avail, and Perseus grew protective.

她試圖把波呂底克忒斯國王趕走，但沒有成功，珀爾修斯開始保護她。

To distract Perseus, Polydectes feigned that he'd finally given up on Danae and would-be wedding another.

為了分散珀爾修斯的注意力，波呂德克忒斯假裝他終於放棄了達娜伊，準備另娶他人。

When Perseus offered Polydectes whatever wedding gift he desired, Polydectes saw the opportunity to be rid of Perseus and suggested that he prove his manhood by fetching a gorgon's head.

當珀爾修斯向波呂底克忒斯獻上他想要的任何結婚禮物時，波呂底克忒斯看到了擺脫珀爾修斯的機會，於是建議他取一個戈爾貢的頭來證明自己的男子氣概。

Perseus accepted the foolhardy mission, gathered a crew, and set sail towards Greee, three ancient sisters.

珀爾修斯接受了這項艱鉅的任務，召集了一批船員，啟程駛向格里伊--三個古老的姐妹。

They shared a single eye and tooth and harbored numerous secrets.

他們共用一隻眼睛和牙齒，藏著無數祕密。

As one sister passed their eye to another, Perseus grabbed it and forced them to reveal the locations of the nymphs of the River Styx and the cave of the gorgons.

當一個姐妹把眼睛遞給另一個姐妹時，珀爾修斯抓住了她們的眼睛，強迫她們說出冥河仙女和龍怪洞穴的位置。

With the nymph's help, he obtained Hermes' winged sandals, Hades' cap of invisibility, and a special satchel.

在仙女的幫助下，他得到了赫耳墨斯的帶翼涼鞋、哈迪斯的隱身帽和一個特殊的挎包。

And he'd accepted a gleaming sickle from Hermes and a shield that shone like a mirror from Athena herself, the goddess who'd cursed Medusa with her monstrous form to begin with.

他還從赫耳墨斯那裡得到了一把閃閃發光的鐮刀，從雅典娜那裡得到了一面像鏡子一樣閃亮的盾牌。

Then, one night, Perseus approached and Medusa fell asleep.

一天晚上，珀爾修斯走過來，美杜莎睡著了。

Perseus entered, crept towards the gorgon's slumbering forms, guiding his way with the reflections on Athena's shield.

珀爾修斯走進去，躡手躡腳地走向沉睡的戈爾貢，用雅典娜盾牌上的反光指引方向。

When he came upon Medusa resting peacefully, he bore his sword down upon her neck.

當他看到美杜莎安詳地躺在地上時，便用劍抵住了她的脖子。

From the wound sprung Medusa and Poseidon's hybrid offspring, a winged horse named Pegasus and a warrior called Chrysor.

美杜莎和波塞冬的混血後代--一匹名叫飛馬的翼馬和一個名叫克里索的勇士--從傷口中萌發出來。

As Perseus stuffed Medusa's head in his satchel, Stheto and Euryale awoke to the horrific scene and attacked.

當珀爾修斯把美杜莎的頭塞進書包時，斯特託和歐魯雅爾被這恐怖的一幕驚醒，併發起了攻擊。

But donning the cap of invisibility and winged sandals, Perseus escaped unscathed, reached only by Euryale's pained cry of despair echoing through the cave.

但珀爾修斯戴上了隱形帽，穿上了帶翼涼鞋，毫髮無損地逃了出來，只有歐魯雅爾痛苦絕望的呼喊聲在洞穴中迴盪。

Perseus was met by his crew's adulation, and because death had failed to dim the power of Medusa's gaze, Perseus used her severed head to kill Polydectes, then gave it to Athena who placed it on her shield.

珀爾修斯受到了他的船員們的追捧，由於死亡沒能削弱美杜莎目光的力量，珀爾修斯用她被砍下的頭顱殺死了波呂底克忒斯，然後把它交給了雅典娜，雅典娜把它放在了自己的盾牌上。

But Athena's wasn't the only shield emblazoned with Medusa's face.

但雅典娜的盾牌上並非只有美杜莎的臉。

Ancient Greek and Roman artists committed Medusa's image to everything from armor and paintings, to ceramics and mosaic floors.

古希臘和古羅馬的藝術家們將美杜莎的形象運用到盔甲、繪畫、陶瓷和馬賽克地板等各個方面。

And while it was customary for ancient Greek subjects to appear in profile, Medusa was almost always facing directly outwards.

雖然古希臘人習慣以側面形象出現，但美杜莎幾乎總是直接朝外。

She was an apotropaic symbol, one that imbued both fear and protection at once.

她是一個寓意深刻的象徵，讓人同時感到恐懼和保護。

In many versions, including the earliest, she was always a Gorgon.

在許多版本中，包括最早的版本，她一直是戈爾貢人。

In others, like the ancient Roman poet Ovid's, she had a sympathetic, human backstory, as a woman who'd experienced cruelty and injustice.

在另一些作品中，比如古羅馬詩人奧維德的作品，她有一個令人同情的、人性的背景故事，作為一個經歷過殘酷和不公正的女人。

We've made our first ever physical game, custom-tailored for all of you mythology lovers, Pandora's Legacy.

我們為所有神話愛好者量身定製了首款實體遊戲--《潘多拉的遺產》。

Play as Pandora as you try to set right the chaos that has been unleashed by Zeus's box in a beautifully illustrated jigsaw puzzle escape room game.

在這款精美的拼圖逃脫室遊戲中，您將扮演潘多拉，努力糾正宙斯之盒引發的混亂。