A Companion to Sophocles
A Companion to Sophocles
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索福克勒斯的同伴
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10.1002/9781118350508.ch2
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2012
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Finglass P
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在世纪，索福克勒斯的《知音》开始传播他的戏剧，这似乎是对过去学术时代的一种古怪的让步。我们对索福克勒斯的了解，我们已经有了：我们为什么要关心我们是如何拥有它的，而不是继续进行分析和解释的紧迫事务？我想到两个原因。首先，索福克勒斯戏剧的传播本身就需要历史学家的关注。古人在什么时候阅读和表演什么戏剧？为什么会有这么多人失踪，或者，为什么会有幸存者？批判学术的命运在某些世纪如此辉煌，在另一些世纪如此衰落，这将使思想史的学生感兴趣。而且，从实践的角度来看，古典文学的传播史是一个如此广阔的领域，它可能有助于从一个主要作者的作品的Vantage来考虑它。其次，了解索福克勒斯戏剧的传播，到目前为止，不是一个分心，实际上有助于他们的文学解释。没有人能开始认真研究这些戏剧，而不很快意识到我们对索福克勒斯所写的东西的证据往往是脆弱或模糊的。索福克勒斯的文字是如何在几个世纪中传播的，以及它们所暴露的腐败过程，这是处理这个问题的重要知识工具，因此，为了尽可能确保解释是基于索福克勒斯所写的，而不是在传输过程中引入的错误。因此，历史和文学的原因结合起来，使这一重要话题的广泛，学者和学生。最近的两项研究，Kovacs（2005）和Sommerstein（2010），分别考虑了希腊悲剧和阿里斯托芬的同一主题。下面的简短讨论旨在尽可能补充这些文章，我推荐给我自己的读者。
Beginning a twenty-first century Companion to Sophocles with the transmission of his plays might seem a quaint concession to a bygone age of scholarship. What we have of Sophocles, we have: why should we concern ourselves with how we have it, rather than getting on with the pressing business of analysis and interpretation? Two reasons come to mind. First, the transmission of Sophocles’ dramas demands the attention of historians in its own right. Which plays were the ancients reading and performing, and when? Why were so many lost–or, alternatively, how come any survived at all? The shifting fortunes of critical scholarship, so brilliant in some centuries, so attenuated in others, will interest the student of intellectual history. And, from a practical point of view, the history of the transmission of classical literature is so vast a field that it may help to consider it from the vantage point of the works of a single major author. Second, understanding the transmission of Sophocles’ plays, so far from being a distraction, actually assists their literary interpretation. No one can begin serious study of these dramas without quickly realizing that our evidence for what Sophocles wrote is often tenuous or obscure. A sense of how Sophocles’ words were transmitted through the centuries, and of the processes of corruption to which they were exposed, is an important intellectual tool for dealing with this problem, and thus for ensuring, so far as possible, that interpretations are based on what Sophocles wrote, rather than on errors introduced during the transmission.Historical and literary reasons thus unite to render this a significant topic for a wide range of scholars and students. Two recent studies, Kovacs (2005) and Sommerstein (2010), consider the same subject for Greek tragedy and Aristophanes, respectively. The brief discussion below is designed to be, as far as possible, complementary to these articles, which I commend to readers of my own piece.