This was the way at least a good many number of ancient people saw early Christian groups.
至少很多古人,对早期基督教团体的看法就是如此。
But Herodotus talks about these ancient people.
但是希罗多德谈到了这些古代人。
So inspiration,contrary to modern assumptions was not the criteria you hear ancient people talk about.
所以与现代观点相反,神启性不是古代人的考虑标准。
No. And the reason was in the northern part of Italy, there were Etruscans, another powerful ancient people who control their own area and were not about to have anybody colonizing their territory.
没有,因为意大利北部,居住着伊特鲁里亚人,另一个古代强大的民族,他们控制自己的疆域,并且不允许任何殖民者侵略他们的领土
It can be argued that the Ancient Near Eastern people with the most lasting legacy is a people that had an idea.
应该说,真正拥有持久遗赠的,古代近东人,是有新观点的人。
In ancient culture people worried a great deal about being properly buried, so that's an interesting concept.
在古文明时期,人们很重视死后能否安然入葬,所以那是个很有意思的想法
This process, I said, this ancient process of taking scabs from patients and introducing them to people you wanted to protect, was called variolation.
这个过程,我想,这个从病人身上取痂,接种到你想保护的人身上的古老过程,叫做天花接种
If you look at the percent of time people in society were involved in various activities and broken into agriculture versus everything else, in ancient Egypt it looked like this.
如果你留意一下,人们从事各种社会活动的时间比例,被分为农业生产和其他活动两类,在古埃及,时间分配是这样的
If wealth were the purpose of politics Aristotle writes the Phoenicians you might say in the ancient world -the Phoenicians were the commercial people par excellence the Phoenicians would be the best regime.
后者是著名《富国论》的作者,亚里士多德写到,如果财富是政治的目的,则你可以说,腓尼基人,远古世界最优秀的商人,腓尼基人治理的是最佳政体。
It's interesting,though, that some ancient people didn't think that.
然而有趣的是,有些古代人并不这么认为。
But for the Greeks, as I think for quite a few other people in the ancient world, death was nothing in the worst sense of the word.
而对希腊人而言,我认为同时对很多其他的,古代人而言皆亦然,死亡是最恐怖的
And so many scholars, and many people, have remarked that it's not a small irony that the Ancient Near Eastern people with one of the, or perhaps the most lasting legacy, was not a people that built and inhabited one of the great centers of Ancient Near Eastern civilization.
很多学者,很多人都说,拥有世界上最永恒遗产的,古代近东居民,并不是那些修建并居住于,古代近东文明中心的人,这是不是很讽刺呢。
So Roman slavery and the freedom of that was actually one way that a few people in the Ancient World recognized some kind of social mobility, which was very rare in the Roman Empire.
所以罗马奴隶制以及奴隶释放制,被古代部分人认为是,某种社会阶级流动,在罗马帝国很少见。
And this is part of what ancient religion was like, is that people were not exclusive.
古代宗教的特点之一,就是人们并不排外。
That's very different from the Greeks, very different from other people in the Ancient Mediterranean.
这与希腊人非常不同,与其他古代地中海地区也不同。
Now, I don't know how far back it goes but it must be that in ancient times some people would say, all right you're going to be doing more work or you're contributing more to this enterprise, we'll give you a bigger share of the profits.
我不知道这能追溯到什么时候,但在古时候肯定有人说,好吧,你比别人干得多,你对公司的贡献更大,我们会把收入的大头给你
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