在荷马的两部史诗中,《奥德赛》一直比《伊利亚特》更受欢迎,也许是因为它不是特别受欢迎的英雄。
Of Homer's two epic poems, the Odyssey has always been more popular than the Iliad, perhaps because it not particularly likable hero.
比如说,希腊人尝试过用各种方法去解读《荷马史诗》,把《伊利亚特》或《奥德赛》解读为包含科学寓意。
So there were all kinds of attempts to read Homer, for example, the Iliad or the Odyssey as allegories for physical science.
在公元前几百年,荷马这样描述奥德赛的几个同伴的命运,一个女巫将他们变成了猪。
Hundreds of years before the birth of Christ, Homer described the fate of the companions of Odysseus who were transformed by a witch into pigs.
And then later on in the story that Homer tells in the Odyssey, Odysseus himself is such a newcomer.
但在荷马写的《奥德赛》这一节中,奥德修斯也是外乡人
There are no arguments in Homer's Iliad or Odyssey. You hear strong and compelling stories but no arguments.
没有辩论存在于荷马的《伊利亚德》,或《奥德赛》书中,你可以读到强烈,与令人信服的故事,但没有争辩。
They are steeped in the entire literary tradition of the underworld journey that stretches from The Odyssey of Homer up through Virgil's Aeneid, and of course up through all of the Renaissance romance epics.
它们被浸泡在整套文学传统中,穿越了从荷马的《奥德赛》上升到,维吉尔的《埃涅阿斯纪》的地下之旅,当然它也经历了所有文艺复兴时期的浪漫史诗。
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