Milton wants to write an epic that in some ways comes before, or prevents, the great epics of Homer and Virgil.

弥尔顿想写一首在某种程度上先于，荷马和维吉尔伟大史诗的史诗。

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Now Milton may not be able to forget Homer, but he is able to correct Homer or to preempt Homer.

弥尔顿不能忘记荷马，但他可以改正荷马或者取代荷马。

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The word polis appears in Homer, but it means something different from what it means throughout most of Greek history.

城邦"这个词首先出现在荷马史诗,但是它在这里的意思,与在希腊历史中的意思不同

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But secondly again Homer and the poets sing the virtues of men at war.

另外，荷马与其它诗人,歌颂战士的美德；

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With a plot furnished by Homer, against a setting by Dante, and with characters motivated by Shakespeare, Ulysses is really not as difficult to comprehend as critics like to pretend."

荷马设置的情节，但丁提供的背景，莎士比亚推动的角色，《尤利西斯》真的不像,评论家鼓吹的那样难懂“

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When you were a young boy, you would've studied just reading and writing Homer.

希腊男子在幼年时，要学习阅读书写荷马史诗。

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Hundreds of years before the birth of Christ, Homer described the fate of the companions of Odysseus who were transformed by a witch into pigs.

在公元前几百年,荷马这样描述奥德赛的几个同伴的命运,一个女巫将他们变成了猪

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This is an analogy as old as, and found in, Homer.

这是在荷马史诗中就发现的类比。

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In that respect, it has a kind of priority over the hells or the underworlds of Homer and Virgil.

在这一点上，它优胜于荷马与维吉尔笔下描绘的,那些地狱或阴间。

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Homer was in error, Milton told us, and Milton called on the moral voice of Spenser to help him make that moral judgment against Homer.

弥尔顿告诉我们荷马错了，他还要求斯潘塞的道德之声,帮助他做出反对荷马的道德判断。

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The language of Homer and of Virgil and of Pindar and of Ovid had become an inextricable part of his literary imagination and of his consciousness in general.

荷马，维吉尔，品达尔和奥维德的语言,成为弥尔顿文学想象还有文学觉悟中,无法摆脱的一部分。

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Well, let me turn to another aspect of the story of Homer and how the poems play into Greek society.

接着让我们转向荷马史诗的另一方面,看看诗歌是如何融入希腊社会的

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But in Homer the term is reserved for Agamemnon or for gods, but not for any other human being.

但《荷马史诗》中这个位置给了阿伽门农,或者是上帝,而不是其他人

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The only precedent Milton would have had even for the idea of line numbers would have been the great ancient classics, the magnificent Renaissance editions of Homer and Virgil.

弥尔顿曾经的唯一一个范例，甚至是印上行数的想法,都将是伟大的古老杰作，是荷马和维吉尔伟大的再生版。

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There are no arguments in Homer's Iliad or Odyssey. You hear strong and compelling stories but no arguments.

没有辩论存在于荷马的《伊利亚德》,或《奥德赛》书中，你可以读到强烈,与令人信服的故事，但没有争辩。

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The theological critique is that Homer simply depicts the gods as false, as fickle, and inconstant.

神学批评是,荷马将众神描绘成,是虚假、易变且无常。

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