古典传统
古典传统(英语:classical tradition)是指后古典时期的西方世界对古典希腊-罗马的接受和承袭[2],这种承袭涉及文字、图像、物质、思想、制度、纪念碑、建筑、文化、仪式、习俗和宗教等诸多方面[3]。哲学、政治思想和神话是古典传统现存于西方并持续发生影响的典型例子[4]。西方是被认为具有古典传统的许多世界文化之一,其他的包括印度、中国、犹太和伊斯兰传统[5]。
对古典传统的研究与古典语言学不同,古典语言学试图恢复“古代文本在其原始语境中所具有的意义”[6]。 古典传统的研究侧重考察后世为揭示希腊-罗马世界的实际所做的努力和“创造性的误解”[7]。古典学家和翻译家查尔斯·马丁代尔(Charles Martindale)将接受古典传统定义为一个“双向的过程,是现在与过去相互对话”[8]。
参考资料
- ^ Anthony Grafton, Glenn W. Most, and Salvatore Settis, preface to The Classical Tradition (Harvard University Press, 2010), pp. viii–ix.
- ^ Anthony Grafton, Glenn W. Most, and Salvatore Settis, preface to The Classical Tradition (Harvard University Press, 2010), pp. vii–viii.
- ^ Grafton, Most, and Settis, preface to The Classical Tradition, p. viii.
- ^ Grafton, Most, and Settis, entry on "mythology," in The Classical Tradition, p. 614 et passim.
- ^ Grafton, Most, and Settis, preface to The Classical Tradition, p. x.
- ^ Craig W. Kallendorf, introduction to A Companion to the Classical Tradition (Blackwell, 2007), p. 2.
- ^ Grafton, Most, and Settis, preface to The Classical Tradition, p. vii; Kallendorf, introduction to Companion, p. 2.
- ^ Charles Martindale, "Reception," in A Companion to the Classical Tradition (2007), p. 298.