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
should we use them at all, and if we do how carefully should we

我们是否应该使用这些资料呢如果是
use them and so on? This is a good time for me to make a confession,

我们又该如何使用呢这是我应该反思的
so that you'll know how to judge what I say all through the course.

这样你们就知道该如何去评判我所讲的内容
Well, prior to the late eighteenth century

好的十八世纪末早期
when German scholars began to look at the Homeric poems specifically,

当德国的学者们开始关注荷马史诗时
very, very carefully, and then really very, very skeptically,

本着怀疑的精神他们潜心研究
they made all sorts of suggestions that

而后他们提出