But now, imagine that we are living in the early years of a polis sometime in the eighth century B.C.

但是,现在想象一下,假如我们生活在公元前八世纪

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In fact, we have some claim, and a Roman writer later on, that there was a treaty back in the eighth century B.C.

实际上,之后一个罗马作家,写到过一些声明,公元前八世纪在埃维厄岛几个城邦之间

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He does tell you all about the legends first, but he puts them aside and says they're just legends--now let's talk history, and he doesn't begin that until the eight century B.C.

他先将神话传说展示给读者,然后将其放到一边,对读者说,这些只是神话而已,现在咱们说说历史,而他讲的历史是从公元前八世纪开始的

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There is no writing in Greece from let us say 1100 or so on until the middle of the eighth century B.C., rough date 750 and then the writing that they do have is completely unrelated to the writing that was lost.

没有文字记载的时期是从,公元前一千一百年左右到,公元前八世纪中叶,差不多是公元前七百五十年,而之后他们拥有的文献,就完全与那些遗失的史料脱钩了

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