Let's flip back a step beyond that to Mycenaean civilization for the purpose of noting the great contrast, the great change.

让我们跳回到迈锡尼时代,比较看看两者间巨大的差异,也就可以明白希腊的巨大进步了

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So, that's what is meant by the term, Dark Ages, and that's what does follow the fall of the Mycenaean world.

那么,这就是这个术语的含义,黑暗时代,它紧随着,迈锡尼文明的陨落到来

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But if we look at the society that emerges, this Dark Age society that emerges from the ancient world of Mycenae, what you have is a rare human experience.

如果我们仔细观察这渐渐浮出水面的社会,这个从古代迈锡尼文明浮现出来的,黑暗时代的社会,你会得到一些相当宝贵的经验

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Was it the world of the Mycenaean Bronze Age?

是迈锡尼的青铜时代吗

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Typically, we speak of the Bronze Age, the Mycenaean Period and so on, followed by the Dark Ages, but after that,you started having refined terms which derive actually from the world of the history of art.

通常,我们会说,青铜时代,迈锡尼文明时代,等等,之后是黑暗时代,但是在那之后,开始有精确的术语来界定时代,这些术语实际上源于艺术史的领域

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Another thing that is interesting is that when you look at the burials of Greeks in the post-Mycenaean period, in the Dark Ages, there's nothing resembling those grand tombs and the wealth that's buried in them for the dead.

还有件很有趣的事,就是在黑暗时代迈锡尼后期,君主的陵墓中没有与其身份相称的陪葬品,没有为来生准备的金银财宝

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It just means a physical place, and what it appears to be is the citadel, the fortress that was the center of the towns that grew up after the Bronze Age, after the collapse of the Mycenaean world.

它只是一个物理上的地名,它看上去像城堡,要塞,是在青铜时代完结,迈锡尼世界崩塌之后,所建立的城镇的中心

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Anthony Andrews says, "It may be that the epic tradition had at some stage used as a model for the army before Troy, an idealized version of some of those bands of colonists who settled the coast of Asia Minor in post-Mycenaean times."

安东尼·安德鲁说道,"或许那时的史诗时代在,特洛伊之前就采用了军队的模式,对于在后迈锡尼时代,小亚细亚地区的殖民者来说,这是最佳的模式

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