从《教授与疯子》谈起
The Professor and the Madman
）中有这样一幕令天下语文学家动容的场景： 梅尔·吉普森（Mel Gibson）饰演的詹姆斯·穆雷（James Augustus Henry Murray， 1837 1915）被带进牛津大学基督教堂学院一间神圣庄严的学堂里，面对着牛津大学出版社的代表们 一群维多利亚时期最桀骜不驯的精英知识分子，穆雷神色凝重，开始了以下这样一段陈述：
我不得不说语文学，不管是比较的还是专门的，都是我毕生挚爱的追求。我对雅利安和叙利亚 阿拉伯语系的语言和文学有一般的了解，并不是说我对它们全部或者说它们中的全部都很熟悉。但我拥有一般的词汇的和结构性的知识，故只需要有机会应用就能够获得更精通的知识。同时，我熟习罗曼语种，包括意大利语、法语、加特罗语、西班牙语、拉丁语，还懂得一定程度的葡萄牙语、瓦尔多和诸多地
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Ancient Greek text on a plaque on the Areopagus in Athens. Credit: Ioannis Kontomitros/Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 GenericA new Ancient Greek dictionary has been created by a team of experts from Cambridge University, a gigantic labor of love that was more than twenty years in the making.Its creators say that the monumental work takes a…
For the first time since the Victorian period, a new English dictionary of Ancient Greek has been published – and it does not spare the reader or modern scholar in a way the Victorians tried to.
Ancient Greece was famously not a reserved place or time, and its language and the stories of the period that have been passed down reflect that. This is where the idea of the Bakkheia (or Roman Bacchanalia) comes from, after all.
Victorian England (1837-1901) on the other hand was famously inhibited (although the table leg myth is just that) and this was reflected in their attempts to tone down some of Ancient Greece’s more “colorful” language.
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