the greatest limitation being mortality;

最大的局限莫过于生命的有限性
that together, composes the tragic vision of

将这二者结合就构成了
the human condition that characterized

希腊文明中特有的
classical Greek civilization.

对于人类悲剧性前景的认识
To cope with it,

为了解决这一问题
they urged human beings to restrain their overarching ambitions.

希腊人力劝人们抑制过度膨胀的欲望
Inscribed at Apollo's temple at Delphi,

在希腊古都特尔斐的阿波罗神庙里
which became–well,

现今已成为...
the Greeks came to call it the navel of the universe,

希腊人把它称作宇宙的肚脐眼
but it certainly became the center of the Greek world--

不过它的确是希腊人的中心
and which was also seen as a central place of importance

就连希腊附近国家的非希腊人
by non-Greeks who were on the borders of the Greek world.

也把此地当做重要的朝圣之地