But the neighborhood was also home to undiscovered poets, playwrights,and musicians.

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In fact, during this whole period playwrights were writing prologues to their plays abusing each other for being obscure that is to say, abusing each other for requiring interpretation.

事实上，当时,剧作家给别人的剧作写序言时,经常互相指责说对方的作品晦涩难懂,换言之，指责说对方的作品需要解读。

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Playwrights that I really love are like, Arthur Miller and David Mamet.

我非常喜爱的剧作家，阿瑟·米勒和大卫·马麦特。

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How would you have had the great Greek playwrights, they would argue, without the system, the world the Greeks were able to create with the Helots?

还有伟大的古希腊戏剧家是怎样来的,没有这个制度,希腊人怎能用奴隶创造昔日的繁荣

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The existence of that play shows to all of us just how seriously Socrates was taken by the greatest of his contemporaries and Aristophanes was along with Sophocles and Euripides and others among the greatest of the Greek playwrights.

这剧本的存在让我们所有人了解到,当代大师有多看重苏格拉底,包括亚里斯多芬尼斯,还有索夫克里斯,尤里庇狄思等大家,及其它伟大的希腊剧作家。

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