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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  first of all,
  首先
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  are all legitimate in the sense every one of them we know
  从合理性上说 这些数据都曾真实地
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  did exist in the Mycenaean Period. And perhaps no less significant
  存在于迈锡尼时期 但同时值得注意的是
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  is that there are also towns listed there that are Mycenaean towns,
  该名单中还包括了该时期之后
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  which disappeared after the Mycenaean Period.
  消失了的迈锡尼城镇
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  In other words, they couldn't just have named towns
  换句话说 诗人们仅仅利用
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  that used to be Mycenaean, but were still around,
  现存的迈锡尼文明城镇的名字
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  so that's why they knew them. No, some towns had disappeared,
  是不可能列出名单的 有些城镇消失了
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  but the names of those towns show up in the catalog of ships.
  但它们的名字却出现在《船舶名录》中
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  There's just no way to explain that except to say
  除非《船舶名录》来源于迈锡尼文明时期
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  that catalog of ships goes back to the Mycenaean Period.
  否则这点就无法解释了
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  Now, the differences between what we find in the Homeric poems
  如今 荷马史诗所反映的差异