比如说，希腊人尝试过用各种方法去解读《荷马史诗》，把《伊利亚特》或《奥德赛》解读为包含科学寓意。

So there were all kinds of attempts to read Homer, for example, the Iliad or the Odyssey as allegories for physical science.

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没有别的主题在西方意象里如这两部荷马史诗般在西方文化的自我界定中占据如此核心的地位，《伊利亚特》和《奥德赛》。

No other texts in the Western imagination occupy as central a position in the self-definition of Western culture as the two epic poems of Homer, the Iliad and the Odyssey .

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奥德赛是古代希腊荷马史诗《奥德赛》的主人公，传说中的伊大卡岛的国王。

Ulysses was the hero in Homer's poem Ulysses in ancient Greece, the king of Edarc Island in legend.

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Of course, they won't be perfect, there's a mixed character of the world of Homer, but still, if you look at the world of Odysseus, his home, what's going on in Ithaca, there are some valuable clues.

当然,并不是完美的答案,荷马史诗里写了一些只言片语,如果你继续阅读《奥德赛》里面的故事,在他的家乡伊萨卡岛发生了什么,你会找到很多有用的线索

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