https://www.facebook.com/hanching.chung/videos/4455022891175150
轉型的經歷 (1~2)：Walking to the Acropolis of Athens changed Le Corbusier (Journey to the East )、Phil Knight (Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike by Phil Knight)...
170 Parthenon (希臘雅典衛城之謎) 2017-06-15 鍾漢清
169 Le Corbusier東方之旅: Greece 2017-06-17 鍾漢清
*****
And finally to Greece. Where walking into the Temple of Athena changed Phil Knight.
“I don’t know how long I stood there, absorbing the energy and power of that epochal place. An hour? Three? I don’t know how long after that day I discovered the Aristophanes play, set in the Temple of Nike, in which the warrior gives the king a gift – a pair of new shoes. I don’t know when I figured out that the play was called Knights. I do know that as I turned to leave I noticed the temple’s marble façade. Greek artisans had decorated it with several haunting carvings, including the most famous, in which the goddess inexplicably leans down… to adjust the strap of her shoe.” – Phil Knight, Shoe Dog.
Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike by Phil Knight
***
Victory (Nike) Adjusting Her Sandal, Temple of Athena Nike (Acropolis)
---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Knights
The Knights
| The Knights | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Written by | Aristophanes |
| Chorus | knights |
| Characters |
Silent roles
|
| Setting | Outside Demos' house near the Pnyx in Athens |
The Knights (Ancient Greek: Ἱππεῖς Hippeîs; Attic: Ἱππῆς) was the fourth play written by Aristophanes, who is considered the master of an ancient form of drama known as Old Comedy. The play is a satire on the social and political life of classical Athens during the Peloponnesian War and in this respect it is typical of all the dramatist's early plays. It is unique however in the relatively small number of its characters and this was due to its vitriolic preoccupation with one man, the pro-war populist Cleon. Cleon had prosecuted Aristophanes for slandering the polis with an earlier play, The Babylonians (426 BC), for which the young dramatist had promised revenge in The Acharnians (425 BC), and it was in The Knights (424 BC) that his revenge was exacted. The Knights won first prize at the Lenaia festival when it was produced in 424 BC.
Plot[edit]
The Knights is a satire on political and social life in 5th-century BC Athens, the characters are drawn from real life and Cleon is clearly intended to be the villain. However it is also an allegory, the characters are figures of fantasy and the villain in this context is Paphlagonian, a comic monstrosity responsible for almost everything that's wrong with the world. The identity Cleon=Paphlagonian is awkward and the ambiguities aren't easily resolved. This summary features the real-world names Cleon, Nicias and Demosthenes (though these names are never mentioned in the play). See Discussion for an overview of the ambiguous use of characterization in The Knights....
Translations[edit]
- Benjamin Dann Walsh, 1836 – verse, full text
- John Hookham Frere, 1839 – verse, full text
- William James Hickie, 1853 – prose, full text
- Benjamin B. Rogers, 1924 – verse, full text
- Arthur S. Way, 1934 – verse
- Eugene O'Neill, Jr., 1938 – prose, full English translation with Greek text
- Alan H. Sommerstein, 1978, available for digital loan
- Jeffrey Henderson, 1998 (Loeb Classical Library) – verse
- George Theodoridis, 2008 – prose: full text
- Ian C. Johnston, 2010 – verse: full text
- Robert H. Webb: available for digital loan
沒有留言:
張貼留言