So in a sense it tells you this work of art is of a piece with what you already know; it's familiar in those ways, and you shouldn't be afraid of it.

在某种程度上,这告诉了你这件艺术作品,其实是你早已认识的东西;,你已经通过那些方式了解了它，不用怕它。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Now, here's another document that you want to be aware of that gives you some idea of what the Greeks fairly early thought the polis was for and about, and what the relationship between individual and polis was.

现在,这有另一份你们应该注意的材料,它能让你了解一些早期希腊人,是如何认识城邦的作用和本质,以及个人与城邦之间的关系的

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