希腊：塑造我们世界的迷人古希腊Greek to Us: The Fascinating Ancient Greek That Shapes Our WorldJohn Davie

基本信息

Book Details

ISBN-13: 9781399424790

ISBN-10: 1399424793

Author: John Davie, Harry Mount

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Imprint: Bloomsbury Continuum

Format: Hardcover

Number of Pages: 288

Release Date: 2 March 2026

Weight: 400g

Dimensions: 218mm x 140mm x 28mm

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书籍简介

希腊的回响：古希腊语如何塑造我们的世界

古希腊语以令人意想不到的方式在我们的文化中延续至今。有时妙趣横生——“演员”一词（hupokrites）衍生出了“伪君子”（hypocrite）；有时又令人赞叹——宇航员（astronaut）字面意思就是“天空的航行者”。而这仅仅是冰山一角，它还衍生出了阿喀琉斯之踵和点石成金的神话。还有“鳄鱼的眼泪”，这源于希腊人相信鳄鱼在吞食猎物时会哭泣！

这是一次博学而又趣味盎然的古希腊之旅，带领读者探索古希腊的世界、他们非凡的语言以及它如何塑造了我们今天对世界的理解。毕竟，语言不正是我们理解世界的框架吗？戴维的目标不仅仅是带来幽默，他更试图追溯贯穿我们文明的古希腊思想脉络，始终以轻松的笔触和引人入胜的词源学知识娓娓道来。我们邂逅了爱神厄洛斯和阿芙洛狄忒、亚历山大大帝和奥斯卡·王尔德、斯多葛学派、伊壁鸠鲁和斯巴达。

这本书探讨的是语言，以及古希腊人对我们现代语言中令人感动和启迪的影响；同时，它也探讨了古希腊如何塑造了我们今天的文化。

Summary

Echoes of Greece: How Ancient Words Shape Our World

Ancient Greek lives on in our culture in surprising ways. Sometimes funny - the word for an actor, hupokrites, gives us ‘hypocrite’; sometimes beautiful - an astronaut is literally a sailor of the skies. And that’s before we get to the myths which gave us our Achilles heel or our Midas Touch. And what about crocodile tears, which comes from the Greek’s belief that crocodiles cried while eating their victims!

This is a learned but always entertaining journey through the world of the Ancient Greeks, their extraordinary language and how it has shaped our own understanding of the world today. After all, what is language but the frame through which we understand the world? Davie aims to bring more than just humour, he seeks to trace the thread of ancient Greek thought that runs through our own civilization, always with the lightness of touch and fascinating etymology. We meet Eros and Aphrodite, Alexander the Great and Oscar Wilde, the stoics, Epicurus and Sparta.

While this is a book about language and the touching and illuminating presence of the ancient Greeks in our current words, it’s also about how Ancient Greece shapes our culture today.

作者简介

约翰·戴维曾任伦敦保罗学校古典学系主任，后任牛津大学三一学院讲师。他翻译过塞内卡、贺拉斯、西塞罗和欧里庇得斯的作品。他还是《你也是吗，布鲁图？》（2022）的合著者。

John Davie was head of classics at St Paul’s School in London before becoming a lecturer at Trinity College, Oxford. He has published translations of Seneca, Horace, Cicero and Euripides. He is the co-author of Et Tu, Brute? (2022).