来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：古希腊历史简介 第3集 第3集》

• 
  
  Almost everything is inference and judgment,
  这段时期几乎所有的历史都是推断和猜想
• 
  
  and very little is anything that you want to call proof.
  只有很少资料是你们想找的那种证据
• 
  
  With those warnings,
  这些是你们要注意的
• 
  
  let me tell you sort of what I think most people think about this.
  我来说说当今社会上的主流观点
• 
  
  First of all, if we want to know about the Dark Ages,
  首先 如果我们想了解黑暗时代
• 
  
  what sources do we have available to us?
  我们有什么资料可寻呢
• 
  
  And of course, I've already mentioned the poems of Homer
  当然了 我刚提到的荷马史诗
• 
  
  turn out to be a very large source
  对大部分人来说
• 
  
  for what most people look to. Secondly,
  就是一份很丰富的资料 另外
• 
  
  there are legends that the Greeks told about their early history,
  古希腊人关于他们的历史有一些神话故事
• 
  
  which come down to us in later sources and they are available
  这些故事以后也可以作为我们学习的资料
• 
  
  to us to use as sources. A great question is,
  但是 我想问大家的是