It was through Plato's severe criticism and outright rejection of Homer's epic poetry that an authoritative rational discourse, known as logos, was established.

正是通过柏拉图对荷马严厉批评和彻底拒绝，建立了一个权威理性话语，即所谓“逻各斯”。

It might be something in the arts – music before Vivaldi, for instance, or the epic poetry of Afghanistan.

它可能是艺术方面——例如维瓦尔第之前存在音乐，或者阿富汗。

You prefer elegy or you prefer epic poetry?

你更喜欢挽歌，还是更喜欢歌？

Three distinct types of epic poetry had evolved by the medieval period in Western Europe.

到中世纪时期，西方欧洲已经形成了三种不同型歌。

It's 16,000 lines of epic poetry and has its origins more than 3,000 years ago.

这是一部长达16,000行，其起源可追溯至3,000多年前。

The popular tales of King Arthur are rooted in Celtic myth, while the Ramayana and the Mahabharata, the great works of Hindu mythology, are celebrated masterpieces of epic poetry.

亚瑟王流行传说源于凯尔特神话，而《罗摩衍那》和《摩诃婆罗多》这两部印度神话伟大作品，则是歌中备受赞誉杰作。

It might be said that there is a chronic surplus of culture Start with indigenous traditions such as epic poetry and polyphonic singing.

或许可以说，格鲁吉亚文化长期过剩。从歌和多声部合唱等本土传统开始。

So there's that, like that's the first chapter, thinking about DNA and language and the basic shape of a line of epic poetry.

因此，第一章探讨是DNA、语言以及行基本结构之间关系。

And the sort of summary of it is that it's a series of biological analogies applied to epic poetry, myth, and how stories function among human beings to try to understand the impact that narrative has on our lives.

其概要在于， 本书运用一系列生比，探讨了、神话以及故事在人社会中作用， 旨在深入理解叙事对我们生活深远影响。

The meter used by Homer was adopted for subsequent epic poetry in Greek, as well as in Latin, and the hybrid dialect he used became the recognized Greek of literature.

荷马使用韵律被后来希腊以及拉丁所采纳，而他使用混合方言成为了文中公认希腊语。

At which point, in a typical moment of bathos, Aristotle concludes his discussion of tragic and epic poetry with the words " Let this count as sufficient discussion" (1462a19).

在这一点上， 在一个典型 bathos 时刻，亚里士多德用“让这算作充分讨论” （1462a19）这句话结束了他对悲剧和讨论。

What could the muse herself that Orpheus bore: Calliope, Muse of epic poetry, was the mother of Orpheus.

俄耳甫斯所生下缪斯女神自己能生下什么呢：卡利奥佩，缪斯，是俄耳甫斯母亲。

Calliope inspired epic poetry, Cleo history, Euterpe lyric poetry and song, Erato love poetry, and Polyhymnia sacred poetry.

卡利俄佩启发创作， 克莱奥启迪历，欧忒耳佩激发抒情与歌曲， 埃拉托赋予爱情灵感，波吕许谟尼亚则激发神圣歌创作。

After his development of blank verse it became the standard medium for English dramatic and epic poetry.

在他发展无韵之后，它成为英国戏剧和标准媒介。

Diegesis is also a form of mimesis, namely the imitation of narration, the retelling of stories that were previously told, which is indeed one plausible way of approaching the origins of epic poetry.

Diegesis 也是模仿一种形式，即模仿叙述，复述以前讲过故事，这确实是接近起源一种合理方式。