I mentioned to you that the Iliad and the Odyssey

我提到过《伊利亚特》和《奥德赛》
were known in the Western world continuously from the time

它们自问世以来就一直为西方文明所关注
that they were made available. So they were known

所以对于研究它们的学者们来说
and they were very important in the minds of those people

是非常重要的
who knew about it, but I also mentioned last time

但是上次我讲到的谢里曼的发掘
the impact of Schliemann's excavations, which turned everything around.

对后世产生了深远的影响
The hyper-skeptical point of view

以致十九世纪欧洲学者的
taken by scholars in Europe in the nineteenth century

怀疑论观点遭到了无情的反击
was eroded very sharply by the discovery of places

因为历史遗迹的的发现
that really convinced pretty much everybody that there was a Troy,

确实说明了特洛伊和迈锡尼
and that there was a Mycenae.

都曾存在过
And so the stories couldn't have been simple inventions,

所以神话传说并不只是人们的空想