1. Pandora's Box
Pandora was the first earthly woman in Greek mythology.
After Prometheus stole the skyfire from the world, Zeus, the main god, ordered God to mold a beautiful young girl out of clay, named Pandora, which means "a woman with all talents", and gave her a gift box, and then betrothed her to Prometheus' younger brother Epimetheus (meaning "hindsight").
regardless of taboos, Epimetheus took the gift box, and Pandora took the opportunity to open it, so all kinds of bad habits, disasters and diseases immediately flew out of it. There is only one beautiful thing left in the box-hope. But before hope could fly out, Pandora closed the box forever.
"Pandora's box" is used as a metaphor for the root cause of the disaster.
2. Sword of Damocles
Damocles was a favorite of the tyrant Dionis Theseus in Greek mythology. He often said that emperors were blessed to please them.
On one occasion, Dionis Theseus sat him on the throne of the emperor, with a sword tied with only a horsehair hanging on his head, to tell him that although he was on the throne, the sword might fall at any time, and the emperor was not blessed, but always worried.
People often use this allusion to describe a potential crisis that may happen at any time.
3. Muse
Muse is the general name of nine goddesses of literature and science in Greek mythology. They are all daughters of the Lord and the goddess of memory. They are headed by Apollo, the god of music and poetry, and are in charge of history, tragedy, comedy, lyric poetry, dance, epic, love poetry, ode and astronomy respectively.
Poets and singers in ancient Greece called to the Muse for inspiration. Later, people often use "muse" to compare literature, writing and inspiration.
5. Pygmalion
Pygmalion is the king of Cyprus in Greek mythology. He hated women and decided never to get married. He carved a beautiful ivory statue with magical skills and fell in love with her.
He caressed her like his wife, dressed her up, and begged God to let her be his wife. Aphrodite, the god of love, was moved by him, gave life to the statue 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 different methods are applied to them, so students are affected differently.
5. The Kiss of Judas
Judas is one of the 12 disciples of Jesus Christ's cronies in the Bible. Although Jesus preached the new way, it was supported by the people, but it aroused the hatred of the Jewish elders and priests.
They bought Judas with 3 silver coins and asked him to help identify Jesus. When they went to Kemani Garden to catch Jesus, Judas pretended to greet him, hugged and kissed him. Jesus was immediately arrested and later crucified.
People use "Judas Kiss" as a metaphor for shameful betrayal.