now, this is a remarkable leap, even beyond the humanism of the greeks, something brand new in the world.

这是一个历史性的飞跃,甚至超越了古希腊的人道主义,当时,这是一种先锋思想

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Later definitions,however, will be expansive and broad and as you go further and deeper into Greek history, the claims become greater and greater.

然而,之后的定义,将变得更广博,更宽泛,如果你进一步深入古希腊历史,这个含义就会进一步宽泛

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Consider the following passage that he writes: "As to rebellion against monarchy, one of the most frequent causes is the reading of the books of policy and history of the ancient Greeks and Romans.

他曾写道：,反抗君主统治的叛乱，最主要的原因是,古希腊，罗马关于政治和历史的书籍,在民间的传播。

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The Carthaginians, in fact, and the Greeks will have to fight the Carthaginians over the years for control of the island of Sicily.

实际上,迦太基人,而在接下来的历史里,为了争夺西西里岛,古希腊人与他们进行了长年的战争

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That's the very first place where there is a tradition of a Greek colony having been planted.

就是在那个地方,古希腊人历史上第一次建立了殖民地

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But then an old Yalie who took this course when he was very young, and later became an ancient Greek historian, took the wonderfully outlandish device of answering this question.

有一位老耶鲁人在年轻时选了这门课,后来成了一名历史学家,专攻古希腊史,他极其出色地回答了这个问题

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When you get to say the middle of the nineteenth century and the work of the great English historian of Ancient Greece, George Grote, he begins his story in 776 with the Olympic Games.

十九世纪中叶,有一位研究古希腊的,伟大英国历史学家乔治·格罗特,他从公元776年的奥运会开始执笔

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In passing, I just want to say that Homer, of course, is the basic text, the basic document for all Greek thinking in every area that you can imagine throughout the rest of Greek history.

顺便提一下,我只想说《荷马史诗》,毫无疑问,是古希腊一切文献资料的基石,贯穿了希腊的整个历史,无论是在你能想象到的任何领域

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Solon was now a man of full years, he was a man greatly respected, and he turns out to be one of the seven sages that the ancient Greeks selected for the wisest men who ever were.

梭仑那时年岁已高并且备受崇敬,他最后被选为古希腊历史上,最具智慧的七个智者之一

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