a hostile army actually gets into Sparta

一队敌军开进斯巴达
and the women are up there on the roofs of their houses,

妇女站在她们房顶上
throwing roof tiles as projectiles against the enemy army.

将屋瓦作为武器扔向敌军
So Spartan women were really something else and there they are.

因此斯巴达女性决不仅仅是女人
But if you take the whole picture, what is it?

但如果从整体来看这是怎样的情形呢
It is, as I say, the degradation of the family in favor

正如我所说在希腊
of the importance of the polis as a whole, its needs, and its structure.

家庭远不如作为整体的城邦重要
It is a warrior ethic,

这就是勇士精神
it is based upon the principle of the hoplite phalanx

它基于重装步兵方阵的要求
and I want to read to you a piece of poetry

我想念一首诗
written by this Spartan poet, Tyrtaeus,

由斯巴达诗人提尔泰奥斯所作
who is dated somewhere in the seventh century

他生活在公元前7世纪