来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：古希腊历史简介 第10集 第10集》

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  Everywhere you can imagine,
  可以想象随处可见的
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  tribe, phratres, and so on,
  部落 法拉提斯
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  some aristocratic family or families
  以及贵族家族等
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  would have had a leading role by tradition.
  他们根据传统成为了统治者
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  The Greek religion did have priests,
  希腊宗教中有祭司
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  but it didn't have a separate priestly class
  但他们不是一个单独的阶层
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  and during the aristocratic period,
  而是在贵族统治时期
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  and I would say probably throughout its history,
  或者说在整个古希腊史中
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  Athenian religion had the priesthoods,
  雅典宗教的神职人员
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  the chief religious places in the state
  国家的主要宗教角色
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  were held by aristocrats,
  是由贵族扮演的
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  which in a primitive society in itself,
  在原始社会