来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：古希腊历史简介第5集第5集》

If you start with a look at

如果你想了解
what was the way in which the land was worked for

在希腊人赖以生存的土地上
the purposes of feeding the population,

曾经耕种过什么的话
it would be okay to take a look at the Homeric poems

你可以看看荷马史诗
as some kind of evidence to help us out,

其中有些可以作为证据来帮我们得到答案
and Hanson focused on this, what was really obviously the

汉森重点指出在荷马时代
units that mattered in the world of Homer,

最重要且最显著的集体
call it the family--

被称作家族
the Greek word is oikos,

希腊语叫"oikos"
and it really means household.

其真正的意思是家庭
But it comes to mean the land

但是它喻义着
that the family works, the family itself,

被家族耕种的土地以及家族自身