那不勒斯：这里曾有女妖出没 那不勒斯.doc

那不勒斯：这里曾有女妖出没 那不勒斯.doc那不勒斯：这里曾有女妖出没 那不勒斯
那不勒斯的美为人期待,为人赞叹,为人仰慕,除了绮丽的风光,瑰丽的文化,还有就是那些以“很久很久以前”作开头,让人兴奋的传说。传说中在那不勒斯出没,以天籁般的歌声送人上黄泉路的女妖塞壬为这个美丽的地方抹上了一丝迷幻又残忍的色彩。然而,也就是这些“杀人如麻”的女妖也会为爱丧命――帕耳忒诺珀爱上了尤利西斯,为追寻爱情,这一次投入海里的不是别人,而是她自己。有人说“不看那不勒斯,就没有资格谈爱情、人生、艺术、甚至死亡”,而在我看来,那不勒斯的美不应是“口口相传”而形成的一种“印象”,而应是用心去感受的,就如感受塞壬在残暴外表下隐藏着的一颗“等爱”的心……――MacAs you round Punta Campanella at the southern tip of the 2)Gulf of Naples―with the isle of Capri 3)looming large in the water to your right just across the strait―you enter the 4)Gulf of Salerno and a 5)stretch of coast and sea known to the ancient Greeks as the “Land of the Sirens.” The area is rich in folklore surrounding a myriad of mysterious descriptions of these6)fabled creatures contribute to the general confusion. Most depictions, including various images in Naples showing Parthenope (the siren for whom the ancient city―before Naples―in this area was named), show them to be 7)mermaids. Actually, ancient descriptions describe them as having bodies of a bird and beautiful human images are frequently found on ancient Greek tombs, suggesting that they might have been funerary 8)divinities (perhaps similar to the human-headed hawk in Egyptian mythology, who 9)incarnated the souls of the dead). Little of any of that remains, however; today, they have come down to us as 10)voluptuous mermaids who made beautiful music to lure passing sa