Now, mind you, notice these are not people

请注意他们并不是所谓的
referred to as god-fearing or lovers of god,

虔诚的信徒或神明的拥护者
no. They are just about equal to the gods

不是根据这些别称
according to these terms.

他们几乎是和神明一样的存在
Now, that on the one hand is this extraordinary claim

一方面希腊人有这样如此不同寻常的主张
that the Greeks make. They did make amazingly powerful claims

和我所了解到的其他任何社会相比
for human beings as opposed to divinity,

他们的确为人类做了很多强有力的辩护
compared to any society that I know anything about.

以对抗神明
This is part of the arrogance that is characteristic

这部分体现了古希腊人的特点傲慢
of the Ancient Greeks, but at the same time,

但与此同时——
and right away at the beginning we're getting to such a very Greek thing,

我们现在就要谈到到一个非常希腊式的事情
a Greek characteristic.

一个希腊人的特点——