Mythology is the source and treasury of the literature and art. Every ancient nation has its own unique mythology. As the cradle of human civilization, ancient Chinese and ancient Greek mythology both have a long history. Therefore there are some similarities between ancient Chinese and ancient Greek mythology. Such as they all appeared in the ancient time and both of them had an important impact on later literature. However , ancient china and ancient Greece have many differernces, so there are many differences of mythology between the two countries. For example the number of god and goddess is different, the environment of two countries is different, the number of mythology story is also different and so on. 源:自*751`%论,文'网·www.751com.cn/

     As is known to all, the goddess is the necessary part of the mythology. Both ancient China and ancient Greece have the story of goddess. I can learn the goddesses’ image, status and other aspects from the mythology of goddess. There is no denying that Chinese goddesses and Greek goddesses are different in many aspects. It has improtant reference value for me to study the different status of different countries. By comparing several aspects of goddess of ancient China and ancient Greece, I can also learn the different cultural background, geographical environment and historical developing process between the two countries at that time. Then I can also learn the effect on later generations that the differences of goddess in mythology bring on.

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     LiYulian(2001) researched and found that the highest difference is due to the different natural environment of ancient China and ancient Greece. Ancient China and ancient Greece are both famous ancient countries in the human history. In Chinese mythology, goddesses are existing independently. On the contrary, the Greek goddesses belong to a whole system.

     ShiXiaojing and YuYin(2006) compared the status of goddesses of two countries. It can easily find that Greek goddesses have higher status than Chinese goddesses. It is caused by the different culture of two countries. It shows the differences of the number and rights of goddesses.

     WuHuaqun and ZhangXihu(2006) considered Chinese mythology and Greek mythology both appeared at the earlier time of human. However, there many differences of them because of the different geographical environment and historical changed process. The Greeks created the image of goddess according to people’s image. Greek goddesses are more beautiful and intelligent than human, at the same time, they also have the emotion, personality and image of human. 文献综述

     GuoWei considered that there are three aspects of differences between Chinese goddess and Greek goddess. The first is the difference of goddess’s rights. He thought Chinese goddess has the highest right such as Nvwa. In addition, Chinese goddesses are more kind than goddesses. On the contrary, Greek goddess are more emotional. Last but not least, Chinese goddesses pay attention to passion andmorality while Greek goddesses focus on desire and sex.