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
and I thought it would be worthwhile reading a sentence

我觉得你们应该认真的阅读
from each of the introductory paragraphs that we provide for you in the problem

我所分发资料的每一句话
packet to show you the range of opinion

因为其中收录了很多代表性学者
that is pretty representative of what scholars think or have thought on the subject.

对于这个问题的主要观点
Moses Finley says,

摩西·芬利曾说道
"If, then, the world of Odysseus is to be placed in time

"根据对英雄主义诗歌的比较研究
as everything we know from the comparative study of

如果奥德修斯的世界存在于一个时代
heroic poetry says it must,

那么这个时代
the most likely centuries seem to be the tenth and the ninth,

最有可能是在公元九世纪或十世纪