来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：古希腊历史简介第4集第4集》

so inhuman from the perspective of the Homeric heroes?

是那么丑陋那么残忍
Here's the line that Homer writes,

荷马有如下描写
they live without the Greek word is nomoi,

他们的的生活脱离于nomoi[希腊文]
which we would translate as laws,

我们可以将其翻译为法律
but before they become

但是在这些成为法律之前
laws they are the customary norms of society,

它们是社会约定俗成的标准
in other words, civilization.

换言之就是文明
They live without nomoi and they wreck not of one another,

独眼怪没有法律如同一盘散沙
that is to say,each family lives by itself.

就是说他们每个家庭都自给自足
They have nothing to do with each other,

他们互无往来
they do not have a community, and they do not have a society.

没有集体没有社会
So, they are,of course, sort of prehistoric monsters

因此对希腊人而言