I'll bet you never heard of Tellus of Athens, neither had Croesus, neither had anybody else outside of Athens.
我打赌你们从没听说过雅典的特勒斯,包括克罗伊斯在内的,任何一个非雅典人都不知道
The Athenians gave him a public funeral on the spot where he fell and paid him the highest honors.
雅典人在他的战死之地举行了国民葬礼,并给了他至高无上的荣誉
Those who might defend the city of Athens against Socrates, those who believe in the value of civic piety are very few among us.
捍卫雅典城,对付苏格拉底,相信公民敬神价值的人,仅占少数。
As I'm sure you know, Socrates was put on trial, condemned to death for corrupting the youth of Athens-- and perhaps, among other things, for arguing philosophy with them.
想必你们都知道,苏格拉底被人指控,以教唆雅典青年的罪名,被判处死刑,也许,罪名还包括,和青年们讨论哲学
So, to summarize, the happiest, the most fortunate man that Solon ever knew was a dead Athenian that nobody ever heard of.
总而言之,梭仑所说的,最幸福最幸运的人,是个无人知晓的已故雅典人
Now, the Greeks were very much concerned individuals and this is especially true of the democrats in Athens.
虽然希腊人很关注个人,这在雅典的民主人士中非常明显
Well, if you look at the catalog of ships in Homer's Iliad, the island of Salamis had its ships lined up next to the island of Athens. Ballgame.
如果你看荷马伊利亚特的《船舶名录》这一卷,萨拉弥斯人把自己的船排列在了,雅典人的船旁边,就那么简单
South of the Aeolian section of that was the region of Asia Minor inhabited chiefly by Ionians, the people on the mainland who are the main Ionians are the Athenians.
位于小亚细亚地区的伊奥利亚南部,主要居住爱奥尼亚人,而在内陆居住的爱奥尼亚人,主要都是雅典人
Some of them only go so far as Athens, which had the good fortune somehow of not being destroyed, one of the few important Mycenaean places that is not destroyed.
有些人逃到了雅典,很幸运的是雅典并没有遭到破坏,它是极少数逃过一劫的迈锡尼重要城邦之一
Well, look at the story the Athenians tell.
好的,再看看雅典人的传说
But rather unlike Socrates, rather in staying to drink the hemlock, Aristotle left Athens and was reported to have said he did not wish to see the Athenians sin against philosophy for a second time.
但不像苏格拉底,没有留下来喝毒芹,亚里士多德离开了雅典,据称还曾说过,不愿再次看到雅典人,反对哲学的罪孽。
The dialogue ends, of course, with the death scene-- Socrates has been condemned to death by the Athenians, and it ends with his drinking the hemlock, not distressed but rather sort of joyful.
对话在死亡场景中结束,此时苏格拉底已经被雅典人宣判死刑,对话在他喝毒药的时候结束,他并不哀伤,反而有点快乐
So, anybody by the time history dawns, who lives in the peninsula that is Attica, is Athenian, even if he lives in a village or a good size town sixty miles away; he is still an Athenian.
因此在有文字记载的历史开始出现时,阿提卡半岛的居民就都是雅典人了,哪怕他住在六十英里外的一个小村庄,或者相对较大的城镇中,他仍是雅典人
No one is above suspicion. Socrates himself had been a close associate of a man named Alcibiades probably the most prominent Athenian in the generation after Pericles.
没有人是绝对清白的,苏格拉底自己的密友之一,就是Alcibiades,他或许是,贝里克利斯之后的年代里最著名的雅典人。
He is referring to his relatives, men like Critias and Charmides, who turned Athenian politics into a tyranny and, which he says, " makes the"democracy look like a golden age."
他所指的是他的亲戚,诸如,Critias,和Charmides,等,将雅典政治转成专制的人,所以他才说,他们让,“民主看起来像是进入了全盛期“
If he went to Troy, he would die, but his memory as the greatest of the Achaeans would be immortal forever. Well, you know the choice he took and you know that it turned out to be right.
如果他去了特洛伊,他可能会战死,但他将被作为最伟大的雅典人受万世颂扬,而获得永存,你们知道了他的选择,也知道最终这个选择被证明是正确的
It's also interesting that Athens has a very clear tradition of thinking they had kings, and what I think is very telling is the story they give us about how kingship came to an end in Athens.
这很有趣,雅典人有个非常鲜明的传统,认为他们有过国王,他们有个我觉得很生动的故事,描述雅典的王权是如何终结的
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