Why? This is not a Greek tradition, but it's very much a tradition in the East for kings to be considered by their people to be gods.

为什么呢？这并不是希腊传统，但在东方，统治者被人民尊为神明,却是一个重要传统。

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Snakes are symbols of renewed life and fertility in the East ; because they shed their skins so they seem to be eternally young; and they're also phallic symbols.

在东方，蛇一般都是新生命或者多产的象征,因为，蛇的蜕皮，似乎能使它永远年轻;,蛇同样也是生殖力的象征。

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The Romans, when they came on the scene, in the East, and they gradually became more and more powerful, they destroyed Corinth in a big battle in 144 BCE.

罗马人在东方登场时，变得愈来愈强大，公元前144年他们在一场大战中摧毁了科林斯。

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But I do not believe that, objectives of crusaders were purely religious. I understand that , there were many many factors that pushed this campaign into the near east.

不过我不认为，十字军的目的是,完全宗教的，我觉得，有很多因素在背后推动,这个运动走向东方。

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In the same period,there is clear-cut,unmistakable, oriental influence on Greek pottery and other things that they make.

在同一时期,有明显的证据表明,希腊受到了东方的影响,这表现在他们制作的陶器和其他器物上

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In some Eastern cultures there's more of a view about faith and more attributions to situation.

而在东方文化中，人们更看重命运,更多地归因于实际情况中。

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There are of course, important ways in which Israel's use of the storm god motif diverges from that of other Ancient Near Eastern stories.

当然，犹太人对暴风之神主题的利用,和古代东方的故事，在很多方面有很大的不同。

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Most of the influence,I suspect, was going one way in those days- from the more advanced civilization of the east to the Greeks.

而且我怀疑,绝大多数影响,在那些日子中是单边流向的,从东方更高级的文明流向希腊

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And this is very important, because the Romans, as their power grew in the East, they simply moved increasingly into the eastern Mediterranean and they adopted the whole Greek system, the Greek world, and they didn't even try to make it non-Greek.

这点非常重要，因为随着罗马人的势力在东方日渐壮大，他们不断朝地中海东部推进,并采取了全套希腊系统，希腊世界，甚至没有作出任何非希腊式的改变。

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It is inconceivable the Greeks could have developed a civilization that they did without contact with these eastern civilizations and learned a great deal from them.

难以想象,希腊人可以在脱离与东方的联系,并未向东方学习的情况下,建立一个与其同样伟大的文明

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The reason for that was that in the east and in south, the Greeks lived among people who were more civilized than they, who were more advanced.

究其原因,在东方和南方,希腊人生活在比他们更文明,更先进的民族中间

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The isolation of the Greek towns in the Dark Age gives way increasingly to contact with the east and the south, and when I say the south I really mean Egypt and all around the eastern Aegean Sea.

在黑暗时代孤立希腊城镇,开始逐渐增加与东方和南方的接触,当我的南方,实际上指的是埃及,以及所有东爱琴海的周边地区

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They might put up an official inscription in an Eastern city in Latin, but they'd almost always, if it was an official inscription, it would also be listed in Greek.

他们也许用拉丁语在某个东方城市，发布官方告示，如果是官方的，同样总是会附上希腊语。

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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。

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