If you had to pick a central focus of where the Greeks were, it would be in the Aegean Sea. So that's useful to remember.

如果你要在古希腊寻找一中心位置,那就是爱琴海,所以这很容易理解

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Yeah, this is not a bad time for me to remind you that in one of Plato's dialogues, Socrates says the Greeks sit like frogs around a pond and that pond is the Aegean Sea.

下面引用一下,柏拉图记录的一段对话,苏格拉底说希腊地形,就像一群青蛙围着一个池塘,而那池塘就是爱琴海

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Sparta starts at an early point, sends out a colony to southern Italy at some time, probably early, they sent out a colony to an island in the Aegean Sea, Melos, and then they stopped and never sent out another colony.

斯巴达要早一些,某一时期在意大利南部建设过殖民地,也许更早的时候,曾在爱琴海上的岛屿米洛斯殖民,然后他们的殖民活动戛然而止,并从未再开始

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Well, the way we can reason things out from the evidence we have suggests that Greek-speaking peoples came down into the area around the Aegean Sea, perhaps around 2000 B.C., about a thousand years later than the emergence of the Minoan civilization at Crete.

根据现在我们掌握的资料推断,讲希腊语的人群主要集中在爱琴海附近,大概在公元前两千年左右,在米诺斯文明出现在克里特岛大概一千年后

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