来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：古希腊历史简介 第3集 第3集》
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the period in which we think about the dawn of the polis?也就是我们所说的城邦萌芽的时期 -
That really is the question we are wrestling with and,这确实是一个很棘手的问题 -
of course, behind it all is不管怎样 -
can we seek any historical information我们是否能从荷马史诗中 -
from Homer's poems at all?得出当时的史实呢 -
It would be a terrible blow to me如果我们不能 -
and everybody else in the field if the answer was "No,"那么这对我们所有人将是一次沉重的打击 -
because just about everything we have to say about this period因为我们将要讲到的这个时期是在 -
between the Bronze Age and the emergence of the polis--青铜时代和城邦的出现之间的阶段 -
most of it involves inferences from our understanding很大一部分的内容都是我们根据 -
of what the Homeric poems tell us.荷马史诗的推断和猜想 -
But I think we need to take a hard look at what we can do,我们应该认真探究我们能从中得到什么