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Milton wants to write an epic that in some ways comes before, or prevents, the great epics of Homer and Virgil.
弥尔顿想写一首在某种程度上先于，荷马和维吉尔伟大史诗的史诗。
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The epic also explains and mirrors the rise of Babel as one of the great cities in the Ancient Near East.
史诗也解释并且映射了巴比伦王国的兴起,它是古代近东繁盛的城市之一。
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Now in these two books we've seen Milton dig up and discard just about the entire tradition of epic poetry.
现在在我们看到的两册书中弥尔顿,挖出并丢弃了所有史诗的传统。
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So, this unfolding of the plot and the epic story has been very, very interesting to watch, especially if you look back to that time when he came back to the company.
苹果的情节展开,和史诗般的叙事，都非常有趣，特别是回首他刚回公司的时候,这两点更为有趣。
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Then, finally, we have to believe, there's no escaping, I think, that there was another thing that provided for memory, something we call the epic tradition.
然后,最终,我们不得不相信,这是没有出路的,我想,是另一种,我们称之为史诗的传统支撑起了记忆
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I think, a collection of epic poems written in Sanskrit that goes back-- it was actually written over a course of 1,000 years and it was completed in the fourth century.
这是本用梵文编著的史诗作品集,可以追溯到...,事实上这本作品的创作时间历时近千年,最终完稿于公元四世纪
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Milton wrote his epic in lines of unrhymed iambic pentameter or what we call, and what Milton would have called, blank verse.
弥尔顿的史诗由不押韵的抑扬格五音步诗句写成,我们，还有弥尔顿都称其为无韵诗。
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They have a substantial reality within the fictional context, the mimetic context, of this epic. These are angels.
他们在这篇史诗虚构的模仿得来的，内容中具有极大的现实意义，他们是天使。
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But Milton's also sensitive to the fact that the very phrase "Christian epic" is in some way a contradiction in terms.
但弥尔顿对有些事实也很敏锐,某种意义上“基督教史诗“这个词语,本身就是矛盾的。
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In The Epic of Gilgamesh we have no motive given for the divine destruction whatsoever. It just seems to be pure capriciousness.
在《吉尔伽美什史诗》中，并没有引起这场大灾难的原因,似乎就像是一场自然灾难。
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There had been a half century that had passed since any great modern epic or romance epic had even been produced.
在过去的半个世纪中,没有任何伟大的现代史诗或浪漫史诗出现。
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Not even the muse Calliope, the muse of epic poetry, was in a position to avert a human tragedy like this.
即使是缪斯之一克莱俄帕，掌管史诗的女神，也不能避免这样一场人间悲剧。
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He would remain a virgin in order to prepare for and to maintain this incredibly important role as an epic poet.
他想保持自己的童贞,为了准备和保持作为史诗诗人这个无比重要的角色。
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He's starting to champ at the bit. He's ready to write an epic poem on much more important subjects than shepherds and shepherdesses.
他已经迫不及待地想要写一首史诗,写一些比田园牧羊生活更为重要的题材。
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The god told Virgil that he wasn't ready yet for the manly, the adult, and the public world, the important world, of epic poetry.
神明告诉维吉尔，他还没有准备好接受，成人世界和公众世界，以及史诗的重要领域。
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Milton would insert into the printed text of his poem his own anticipation that his epic would receive the same universal approbation as Homer's and Virgil's.
弥尔顿会把自己的预想也写进他的诗里,他认为自己的史诗也会得到普遍的认可,就如荷马和维吉尔的史诗。
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And so in this perspective we have an image of the awesome power of the Deity Himself thundering away behind every jot and tittle of Milton's great epic.
从这个角度，我们能看到,上帝的神力隐去了,藏到了弥尔顿的史诗的一点一滴中。
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In The Epic of Gilgamesh they were the ones who got the plant of eternal youth. It's etiological.
在《吉尔伽美什史诗》中,蛇得到了可以永葆年轻的植物，所以蜕皮。
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That's the name of the city-state over which he is king. And the epic as we now have it was probably composed between 2000 and 1800 BCE.
吉尔伽美什的故事,据传，这部史诗创作于公元前2000-1800年之间。
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But the most detailed flood story we have actually comes from The Epic of Gilgamesh, on the eleventh tablet of The Epic of Gilgamesh.
但是其中，记载最详尽的,是在《吉尔伽美什史诗》11章中。
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The blind poet calls on the Holy Spirit to assist him in the composition of the epic.
这位失明的诗人请求神灵帮助他,完成史诗。
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But it's strictly a Christian epic poem that Milton seems to imagine himself as writing.
但是弥尔顿想象自己写的,是一本严格意义上的基督教史诗。
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The creation story in Genesis 1 draws upon the Babylonian epic known as Enuma Elish.
第一章里创世纪的故事,源于巴比伦史诗《埃努玛-埃利什》
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Milton began writing his epic poem too late to celebrate a virtuous political realm.
弥尔顿写他的史诗的时候,要歌颂清明的政局已经为时过晚。
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So Milton implies to Diodati that he isn't yet up to the task of epic, but as he describes the Nativity Ode that he's just written, it's almost as if he considers it something of a mini-epic.
所以弥尔顿暗示迪奥达蒂自己还不能完成创作史诗的任务，但他提到了他刚写完的《圣诞清晨歌》,好像这就是一篇迷你史诗。
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You'll remember that Mammon has a special place within his cave that's called the garden of Proserpine, and the Garden of Proserpine has within it all of the central symbols of pagan wisdom and of beautiful epic literature.
你们应该记得贪神在他的洞穴中有个特别的地方,那里被称为普罗塞尔皮娜之园，这个园子中集合了所有异教神的智慧和,优美史诗的重要象征。
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But by the time Milton begins writing his epic, he abandons his plan for a nationalistic poem, a nationalist poem, and decides instead to use the subject matter that he had been intending for that prospective tragedy, Paradise Lost.
当弥尔顿开始写史诗的时候，他放弃了原来写民族主义诗歌的计划，转而决定用他本来打算写的悲剧,《失乐园》的主题。
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I suggest that we can hear echoes of that same youthful competitiveness in Milton's first major poem in these opening lines, in the beginning of the great epic of Milton's maturity.
在失乐园的开头几句,在弥尔顿成熟后所写的这首伟大史诗的开头，我们还可以看到这同样的他年轻时的雄心。
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in his great depiction of hell in Books One and Two) to avoid the standard epic scenes of the torture of the damned, for example, with which we're familiar if we've read Homer or Virgil or, of course, Dante much later.
在他第一和第二册书对地狱的精彩描述）,去避免提及传统史诗中关于恶者被折磨的场景，例如我们所熟悉的那些场景,如果我们读过荷马的，维吉尔的，当然还有但丁的作品。
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