This was not the best feature of the Athenians, yet it was part of their nature.

无疑不是种雅典人的好品性，但是是他们的种性格。

The allies panicked, and were all for taking to their ships and leaving the Athenians to their fate.

雅典人的同盟者开始害怕了，他们要乘自己的船逃离而去并丢下雅典人不管。

But knowing how to live is, perhaps, even harder. And this is what the Athenians aimed to do.

但是知道如何活着，也许更艰难。就是雅典人力求的。

The Athenians fought back at the famous Battle of Marathon two years later.

两年后 ，雅典人在著名的马拉松战役中进行了反击。

He always asked challenging questions to everyone he met, upsetting many people in Athens.

凡是他遇到的人，他都会问些挑战性的问题，多在雅典的人焦虑。

This didn't mean that everyone who lived in Athens was entitled to vote in the Assembly.

当然并非每住在雅典的人都有权在大会上有表决。

Women, slaves, and people who were  not born in Athens could not vote.

妇女、奴隶和非在雅典出生的人不能投票。

Their assemblies had taught the Athenians how to discuss all matters openly, with arguments for and against.

雅典人在他们的公民大会上学会了公开谈论切事务，发表同意或不同意的意见。

With the aim of destroying Athens and conquering Greece, he equipped a large fleet.

些雅典人干涉了他的事务。为了消灭雅典人并占领希腊，他装备支庞大的舰队。

" Neither did Socrates. All he knew was that he knew nothing. And yet he was the cleverest person in Athens."

“苏格拉底也是。他只知道自己无所知，然而他却是雅典最聪明的人。”

After a while he went down through the entrance and climbed to the Areopagos hill where Paul had addressed the Athenians.

过了会儿，他从入口下去，爬上了保罗向雅典人讲话的亚略帕戈斯山。

So what did the meritocratic and democratic Athenians do when the Melians politely asked not to participate in the fight?

那么，当美丽安人礼貌地要求不要参战时，贤能民主的雅典人做了什么？

For the Athenians, it was first and foremost essential to master the art of rhetoric, which means saying things in a convincing manner.

当时的雅典人认为，最重要的事就是要精通演说术，也就是说要能够用令人信服的方式来表达自己的看法。

Second, life under the Athenians wasn’t so awesome, particularly if you were a woman or a slave, and their government was notoriously corrupt.

其次，雅典人统治下的生活并不是那么美好，尤其是如果你是女人或奴隶， 而且他们的政府是出了名的腐败。

In this, he is quoting St. Paul's speech to the Athenians on the Areopagos hill: 'In him we live and move and have our being.

在方面，他引用了圣保罗在亚略帕戈斯山上对雅典人的讲话：“我们生活、行动和存在都在他里面。”

In Peace, written in 421 BC, a middle-aged Athenian frees the embodiment of peace from a cave, where she’d been exiled by profiteering politicians.

在写于公元前 421 年的《和平》中，位中年雅典人将和平的化身从洞穴中解放出来，她曾被牟取暴利的政客放逐到那里。

That made the Persian king Xerxes mad, so he led two major campaigns against the Athenians, and the Athenians enlisted the help of all the other Greek city-states.

波斯国王薛西斯大发雷霆，因此他领导了两次针对雅典人的重大战役， 雅典人争取到了所有其他希腊城邦的帮助。

Let's imagine there are two ships: the ship that Theseus docked in Athens, Ship A, and the ship sailed by the Athenians 1000 years later, Ship B.

假设有两艘船：忒修斯停靠在雅典的那艘船， A号船，以及1000年后雅典人航行的B号船。

Against what is seen as the democratic decay of tragedy in Euripides, Aeschylus's drama will restore the heroic virtue of the Athenians and give them back some proper patriotism.

与欧里庇得斯悲剧的民主衰败相反，埃斯库罗斯的戏剧将恢复雅典人的英雄美德， 并给他们些适当的爱国主义。

(—Perhaps one will here recall that Athenian who also declared war upon pure " scientificality, " to wit, Socrates, who also elevated egoism to the estate of a morality).

（——也许人们会在里回忆起同样向纯粹的“科学性”宣战的雅典人，即苏格拉底，他也将利己主义提升到道德的高度）。