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But what the Greeks spent most of their time doing was fighting each other, one hoplite phalanx against another hoplite phalanx.
但是希腊人在大部分时间里都是方阵对抗,一个步兵方阵和另外一个步兵方阵对垒
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For the Greeks,on the other hand as I've said, political society was essential for living any kind of a good life.
对于希腊人,就像我说的另外一方面,对他们而言,政治社会,是人们获得幸福生活的关键
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But there's one thing that the Romans made even more of, than the Greeks had made of, and this is the patron-client structure.
但有一样东西罗马人比希腊人，做得更极致，即庇护关系。
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After the Greeks laid out their fifths and fourths and whole steps, they had these little leftovers.
当希腊人安排好,五度音程,四度音程和全音级后,他们还有一些剩余
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How would you have had the great Greek playwrights, they would argue, without the system, the world the Greeks were able to create with the Helots?
还有伟大的古希腊戏剧家是怎样来的,没有这个制度,希腊人怎能用奴隶创造昔日的繁荣
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So, this will be significant as we talk about how the Greeks differed from them, which gets us to the Greeks.
而希腊与这些的区别将是我们讨论的重点,让我们回到希腊的话题上
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We know that the first colony that the Greeks established was in the Bay of Naples on the island of Ischia.
我们知道希腊建立的第一个殖民地,是在那不勒斯湾的伊斯基亚岛
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The Greeks were, even though they went to sea plenty, they were terrified of the sea for very good reason.
那时的古希腊人,虽然时常出海,但他们也是非常惧怕大海的
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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。
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now, this is a remarkable leap, even beyond the humanism of the greeks, something brand new in the world.
这是一个历史性的飞跃,甚至超越了古希腊的人道主义,当时,这是一种先锋思想
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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
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Well, the Greeks had no concept of natural rights, or of rights that human beings were given by the gods.
当然,古希腊人没有自然权利,或者天赋人权的概念
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They say, "Yeah, yeah the Greeks were terrific, they achieved wonderful things, they were a miracle, the golden age, and all that.
他们会说,是的,希腊人很了不起,他们实现了很多美好的事物,他们是个奇迹,那是个黄金时代,诸如此类
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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
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The Greeks would have thought you were out of your mind, or that you were some kind of barbarian, but that's okay.
希腊人会认为你疯了,或者将你视为野蛮人,那也无所谓
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Now, the Greeks were very much concerned individuals and this is especially true of the democrats in Athens.
虽然希腊人很关注个人,这在雅典的民主人士中非常明显
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The Greeks, in Homer's world, seem to regard one just about as well as they do the other.
荷马时期的希腊人,似乎和看重其他品质一样,看重这个品质
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That's a very strange thing because the Greeks turn out to be an enormously active seafaring people with tremendous fear of the seas.
但奇怪的是,希腊人,虽然对海洋有着极度的恐惧,但同时,他们又是一个活跃于海上的民族
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However, there's this great question of how far do the Greeks pursue in a hoplite battle?
但是,这里又有一个问题,希腊人在方阵战中会从战场追出多远呢
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The Greeks, however, combined a unique sense of mankind's high place in the natural order.
然而,希腊人,将人放在自然法则中的,至高地位,他们结合这一独特观念
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So, they are,of course, sort of prehistoric monsters as far as the Greeks are concerned.
因此对希腊人而言,他们就是一群史前怪物
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In Alexandria, the local Egyptian population resented the Jews because they were recognized as a legal ethnicity in Alexandria, and they weren't given complete privileges of the Greeks in-- Alexandria was a Greek city.
比如在亚历山大港，当地埃及人仇视犹太人,因为他们在当地是合法少数民族，而埃及人却没有任何希腊特权。。。,亚历山大港是希腊式城市。
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They ran against something that was regarded with much more hostility by the Greeks.
他们和一些,更为希腊人所反感的对手竞争
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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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