Alexander, of course, had been educated by Aristotle, when he was young, and so he had adopted Greek language and Greek literature and a lot of other Greek ways.

亚历山大本人幼年时，师承亚里士多德，所以他使用希腊语，熟悉希腊文学,以及各类希腊文化。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

At the core of it is a belief in progress, something that was essentially not present among the Greeks.

其核心就是对于进步的信仰,实质上说这在希腊文化中是不存在的

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

But for right now, all you need to know is that all of these generals, although they were Macedonians and spoke Macedonian and not themselves Greek, but they had, just like Alexander, they had adopted Greek language, Greek culture.

不过目前，你们只要知道所有四位将领，虽然都是马其顿人，说马其顿语,不是希腊人，但是他们和亚历山大一样，使用希腊语，希腊文化。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

Plato's desire for a kind of radical makeover, of Athenian and Greek political institutions and cultures, grew out of his experience of political defeat and despair.

柏拉图想要彻底改变，雅典及希腊,政治制度及文化的欲望，来自他的,政治挫折及失望。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

We're talking about a culture when we're talking about the Greeks, which is most strikingly signified by the language that is spoken.

当我们谈论希腊人时我们是谈论希腊文化,是严格以所使用的语言为主要标志的

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

What Alexander had wanted to do was to take all these different peoples, who spoke different languages and had different customs, and use a Greek layer to sort of unite his empire overall.

亚历山大的理想是，让所有说不同语言，不同习俗的民族，用一种希腊文化统一帝国。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

Anybody who looks at Greek mythology and Greek poetry, and Greek stories sees there is a powerful influence coming into Greek thought from mainly the Mesopotamian direction.

任何浏览过希腊神话,诗歌和故事的人,都能发现来自美索不达米亚的文化,对希腊思想的巨大影响

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Although these people are Greeks, they are ruling a culture which is thoroughly different from the one we will be studying for the bulk of the semester.

虽然这些人是希腊人,但是他们所统治的文化,和我们将要花大半个学期所学的文化完全不同

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Greece never sees anything like it again.

希腊地区再也没有出现过这样的文化

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

And indeed, as we shall see, well, the tragic view of life, which the Greeks invent and which characterizes their culture, is there right at the beginning in the Iliad and the Odyssey.

确实,我们可以看到,悲剧人生观,在伊利亚特和奥德赛的一开始就有所体现,这是希腊人首先提出的,体现了他们的文化性格

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Greek language, culture, and religions, different religions and the syncretism, - Greek education, the polis structure-- all of these things remained in the East throughout the Roman rule of the East, all the way up until the time you had a Christian emperor with Constantine, and later.

希腊语，文化，宗教，不同宗教，融合，希腊教育，希腊城市结构-,这些在罗马统治东方时,都保留了下来，直到出现了,信仰基督教的帝王君士坦丁一世及其他。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选