Theocritus’ 'Herakliskos' (eid. 24).Introduction, text, translation, commentary

Theocritusâ“Herakliscus”（开斋节 24）。介绍、文本、翻译、评论

• 批准号: 449839861
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Hans Bernsdorff
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Institut für Klassische Philologie
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2019-12-31 至 2022-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/449839861?language=en
• 关键词: Theocritus; Herakliskos; eid.; 24; .Introduction

In this project I aim to comment on a central text of Greek poetry (under contract with Oxford University Press). It comes from the first half of the third century BC and therefore belongs to the Hellenistic period, the poetry of which had a considerable impact on the literary production of later times. I here only mention the Roman poetry of the Augustan period (in Theocritus’ case Vergil in particular), but also modern European literature, in German. Scholarship on Hellenistic poetry has made an enormous progress within the last thirty years or so, in which new perspectives of research have been opened, e.g. on the question whether Hellenistic poetry, part of which was created in Ptolemaic Alexandria, could refer to an Egyptian backround. Theocritus’ 24th Idyll attempts to embrace Heracles’ whole heroic career in 172 hexameters. It focuses upon his first deed as a baby: the strangling of the two snakes sent by Hera to kill Heracles and his brother Iphicles. Due to this focus on the appealing themes of childhood and homely life, which entail a miniaturizing of the heroic, the text belongs to the most popular of Hellenistic poetry, all the more so since it is believed to combine many typical traits of Hellenistic aesthetics in a nutshell.Thus it is all the more surprising that there is no proper full-scale commentary on the text. The monumental Theocritus commentary by A. S. F. Gow is still indispensable for the discussion of textual and exegetical problems, but it is now almost 70 years old. Its interests, therefore, are partly different from those of today’s readers. The only attempt to treat the poem in a single, detailed commentary is unsatisfactory. Thus, after other idylls of Theocritus have recently found competent commentators, it is time to make the Herakliskos the object of a detailed explanation. Such a restriction to a relatively small number of verses seems wise in order to do justice to the high complexity of the poem.The general aims of the new commentary shall be:(i) to apply more recent methods and tools of interpretation (e.g. narratology, intertextuality, structuralistic analysis) to the Herakliskos;(ii) to make critical use of the results of recent scholarship on Hellenistic poetry and make them accessible for the reader of a single text; (iii) to include new textual evidence (papyrological, inscriptional, in medieval codices) for establishing a new text of the Herakliskos itself. New findings in the area of related texts (e.g. Posidippus’ epigrams on the Milan Roll) can help the interpretation of our poem;(iv) to include the results of recent scholarship in related areas of research such as ancient history, classical archaeology, Egyptology and history of religion.

在这个项目中，我的目标是评论希腊诗歌的中心文本（根据与牛津大学出版社的合同）。它来自公元前世纪上半叶，因此属于希腊化时期，其诗歌对后来的文学作品产生了相当大的影响。我在这里只提到奥古斯都时期的罗马诗歌（特别是在忒奥克里托斯的例子维吉尔），但也有现代欧洲文学，在德语。在过去的三十年左右，希腊化诗歌的学术研究取得了巨大的进展，其中新的研究视角已经被打开，例如，关于希腊化诗歌的问题，其中一部分是在托勒密亚历山大创造的，可以参考埃及背景。忒奥克里托斯的第24田园诗试图拥抱赫拉克勒斯的整个英雄生涯在172六步诗。它的重点是他作为一个婴儿的第一个行为：勒死两条蛇由赫拉发送杀死赫拉克勒斯和他的兄弟伊菲克勒斯。由于集中于童年和家庭生活的吸引人的主题，这就需要对英雄人物进行美化，这篇文章属于最受欢迎的希腊化诗歌，尤其是因为它被认为是希腊化美学的许多典型特征的联合收割机的缩影。因此，更令人惊讶的是，没有对这篇文章进行适当的全面评论。不朽的Theocritus评论由A。S. F.高仍然是不可缺少的讨论文本和训诂问题，但它现在几乎70岁。因此，它的兴趣在一定程度上不同于今天的读者。唯一的尝试对待这首诗在一个单一的，详细的评论是不满意的。因此，在忒奥克里托斯的其他田园诗最近找到了称职的评论家之后，是时候把赫拉克利斯作为详细解释的对象了。这样的限制，以一个相对较少的诗句似乎明智，以公正的高度复杂性的诗。新的评注的总体目标应：（一）应用更近的方法和工具的解释（如叙事学，互文性，结构主义分析）的赫拉克利斯科;（二）使批判性地利用最近的奖学金希腊化诗歌的结果，使他们为读者提供一个单一的文本;（三）包括新的文字证据（纸莎草，题记，在中世纪抄本），为建立一个新的文本的赫拉克利斯克本身。在相关文本领域的新发现（如Posidippus在米兰卷上的警句）可以帮助我们的诗的解释;（iv）包括最近在相关研究领域的学术成果，如古代历史，古典考古学，考古学和宗教史。