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，我的目的是评论希腊诗歌的中心文本（与牛津大学出版社签订合同），它来自公元前三世纪上半叶，因此属于希腊化时期，该时期的诗歌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（特别是维吉尔的提奥克里特），但也提到了现代欧洲文学，在德国，希腊化诗歌的学术在过去取得了巨大的进步。大约三十年，其中新研究的视角已经被打开，例如希腊化诗歌（其中部分创作于托勒密亚历山大）是否可以参考埃及背景的问题，即狄奥克里特斯在 172 首六步诗中尝试拥抱赫拉克勒斯的整个英雄生涯。他婴儿时期的第一件事就是勒死赫拉派来杀死赫拉克勒斯和他的兄弟伊菲克勒斯的两条蛇。童年和家庭生活的吸引人的主题，这需要英雄的缩影，文本属于最流行的希腊化诗歌，更是如此，因为它被认为概括地结合了希腊化美学的许多典型特征。更令人惊讶的是，A. S. F. Gow 的巨著《Theocritus》评论对于文本和解经问题的讨论仍然是不可或缺的，但它并没有对文本进行适当的全面评论。因此，它的兴趣与当今读者的兴趣有所不同，以单一、详细的评论来处理这首诗是不令人满意的，在最近找到了有能力的评论家之后，现在是时候对赫拉克利斯科斯进行详细解释了，这样限制相对较少的诗句似乎是明智的，以便公正地对待这首诗的高度复杂性。 新注释的总体目标。应：（i）将更新的解释方法和工具（例如叙事学、互文性、结构分析）应用于赫拉克利斯科斯；（ii）批判性地利用最近希腊化诗歌的学术成果，并使它们为大众所理解。单一文本的读者；（iii）纳入新的文本证据（纸卷、铭文、中世纪抄本），以建立《赫拉克利斯科斯》本身的新文本。相关文本（例如米兰卷上波西迪普斯的警句）可以帮助解释我们的诗；（iv）包括相关研究领域的最新学术成果，例如古代历史、古典考古学、埃及学和宗教史。