Hadrian's Wall: Some Problems
Hadrian's Wall: Some Problems
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哈德良长城：一些问题
作者：
D. Breeze;B. Dobson
‘Hadrianus) … murumque per octoginta milia passuum primus duxit, qui barbaros Romanosque divergeret’ (Scriptores Historiae Augustae, Hadrian xi, 2)。 “哈德良是第一个建造八十英里长的城墙的人，将罗马人和野蛮人分开”。值得回顾的是，这是古代文献中关于哈德良长城功能的唯一陈述。当然，像所有文学证据一样，它的可信度可能会因其作者的无知、偏见或误解而被削弱，但它为我们提供了一种解释。来自建筑物和发现的所有其他证据都没有回答为什么建造长城的问题，即使是铭文告诉我们，无论有或没有普拉托里乌斯·尼波斯，哈德良建造了许多未命名的建筑物。迄今为止对这个问题的回答都是现代学者的解释，需要不断地审视，不能因名誉或重复而获得虚假的有效性。这里提供的解释没有特别要求接受的；它们只是可以考虑的建议。
‘Hadrianus) … murumque per octoginta milia passuum primus duxit, qui barbaros Romanosque divideret’ (Scriptores Historiae Augustae, Hadrian xi, 2). ‘Hadrian was the first to build a wall, eighty miles long, to separate the Romans from the barbarians’. It is salutary to recall that this is the only statement from an ancient source on the function of Hadrian's Wall. Like all literary evidence, of course, its credibility may be weakened by its author's ignorance, prejudice or misunderstanding, but it offers us an interpretation. All other evidence, from structures and finds, is mute on the question why the Wall was built—even the inscriptions which tell us that Hadrian, with or without Platorius Nepos, built a number of structures unnamed. The answers so far offered to this question are the interpretations of modern scholars, needing constantly to be reviewed and not to be allowed to acquire a false validity by reputation or repetition. The explanations offered here have no special claim to acceptance; they are merely suggestions that may be considered.