Aristophanes, Birds, 995–1009
Aristophanes, Birds, 995–1009
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阿里斯托芬，鸟类，995–1009
DOI：
10.1017/s0009838800013951
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发表时间：
1937
影响因子：
0.2
通讯作者：
R. Wycherley
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作者：
R. Wycherley
在《鸟语集》的后半部分，有一群人缠着佩西泰勒斯（或者叫佩西泰勒斯，不管他叫什么名字），给他提供不必要的帮助和建议，其中有梅顿，著名的天文学家和数学家，他用仪器制作并演示了一种规划新城的方法。庇西泰罗斯没有试图跟着他，很快又把他捆了出去，没有太多的仪式。除了少数例外，评论家和读者也以类似的方式对待他。ʹΕπίτηδες⋯δɩανόητα,δɩόλου⋯νοηταίνεɩ,παίζεɩ——注释者的评论,和编辑主要是内容。Van Leeuwen（在2002 - 2005年）说：“转喻是一种语言的智慧，它是一种语言的智慧，但它是一种语言的智慧。”这段话当然非常滑稽；如果把它变成说教式的，并把阿里斯托芬在几何学和城市规划方面的认真钻研归于他，那将是有悖常理和迂腐的；但在阿里斯托芬的作品中，总有一两粒真理，这比大多数喜剧作家的作品都要多。这些颗粒，虽然很少或不重要的欣赏戏剧作为喜剧，可能仍然有一些可能的价值在其他方面，应该仔细筛选。
Amongst the people who pester Peisthetaerus (or Peithetaerus or whatever his name is) with unwanted help and advice in the latter part of the Birds is Meton, famous astronomer and mathematician, who produces and demonstrates with instruments a method of laying out the plan of the new town. Peisthetaerus makes no attempt to follow him and quickly bundles him out again without much ceremony. Commentators and readers with few exceptions treat him in a similar way. ʹΕπίτηδες ⋯δɩανόητα, δɩόλου ⋯νοηταίνεɩ, παίζεɩ—such are the comments of the scholiast, and editors are mostly content with that. Van Leeuwen (on 1002–1005) says, ‘Metonis haec verba intellegere velle, id est operam dare ut suo ioco frustretur cbtnicus.’ The passage is of course highly comical; to make it didactic and attribute to Aristophanes a serious excursion into geometry and town-planning would be perverse and pedantic; but in Aristophanes more than in most comic writers there is commonly a grain or two of truth among the chaff. These grains, though of little or no importance for the appreciation of the play as comedy, may still have some possible value in other ways, and should be carefully sifted.