🎶 You and me got a whole lot of history 🎶 The Acropolis is made up many ancient historical sites that is within the citadel making it a little city of its own back in its glory days. First stop - The Odeon of Herodes Atticus. By the way you know the sound of like ‘cengkerik’ in the background, it’s everywhere in Greece and escoeaillu in Acropolis so we were trying to see them and kept stopping at every other tree to spot them but I guess their too small for the naked eye to see. What fascinating creatures. “The word acropolis is from the Greek words ἄκρον (akron, "highest point, extremity") and πόλις (polis, "city"). The term acropolis is generic and there are many other acropoleis in Greece. During ancient times it was known also more properly as Cecropia, after the legendary serpent-man, Cecrops, the supposed first Athenian king. The Acropolis of Athens is an ancient citadel located on a rocky outcrop above the city of Athens and contains the remains of several ancient buildings of great architectural and historical significance, the most famous being the Parthenon. The Odeon of Herodes Atticus (Greek: Ωδείο Ηρώδου του Αττικού; also called Herodeion or Herodion; (Greek: Ηρώδειο) is a stone Roman theater structure located on the southwest slope of the Acropolis of Athens, Greece.It was built in 161 AD by the Greek Herodes Atticus in memory of his Roman wife, Aspasia Annia Regilla. It was used as a venue for music concerts with a capacity of 5,000. It lasted intact until it was destroyed and left in ruins by the Heruli in 267 AD.” - Wikipedia #ADashOfSash💋 #CommittedToTheCelopians #DiaryOfADevotedDomesticatedDabawi #TheElusiveFairytaleOfTheHalfBloodPrincessSayang

To be, or not to be: that is the question 我最近認識了莎士比亞，還有朱生豪。 莎士比亞是著名的劇作家，從小到大我只知道他的名字，也在逛書店的時候常常看……見他的書。 讀的方面，也不是我不要。我看不懂啦！🤣每次打開書本，眼睛快速掃描幾頁，腦袋裏面就會出現 404 error 的字眼😵‍💫 英文版的太多古老詞匯，中文版的太多讓我記不住的譯名。我真的很害怕看到譯名，像《哈姆雷特》的人物介紹頁就可以看到一整排，最後一個字是“斯”的角色譯名，而且名字的長度也可以有5個字那麽多 🥲 雖然以前以爲自己永遠都不會碰這些劇本，但過了那麽多年再拿起這本由朱生豪（1912-1944） 翻譯的《仲夏夜之夢》（A Midsummer Night’s Dream）的時候，我竟然莫名地對它非常感興趣～～ 他的翻譯很活潑，連原文裏面押韻的部分他也會跟著押～ 像這樣： 英文版： Through the forest have I gone. But Athenian found I none. On whose eyes I might approve This flower’s force in stirring love. 超强翻譯中文版： 我已經在森林中間走遍， 但雅典認可還不曾瞧見， 我要把這花液在他眼上 試一試激動愛情的力量。 （劇中“仙后”被人用神奇花液敷了一下眼膜，對一個驢頭人（？？）激起了愛情的力量 這劇情與我想象的莎士比亞差太多了！！！喜歡~） 朱生豪是較早翻譯，而且翻譯最多最多莎士比亞作品的中國人，也因爲他處於的年代的關係，雖然説劇本是翻譯的，但還是可以感受到濃濃的中文韻味，又完全沒有偏離原文的意義。 原本他還會用一些出現在莎士比亞世界好像有點好笑的用詞，像“修女”他譯成“尼姑”，“國王”是“皇上”，“修道院”是“尼姑庵”，“皇后”是“娘娘”等。後來的出版社都把這些詞改得更現代化，但我覺得他那樣做肯定會讓當時的讀者與莎士比亞的作品靠得更近~ 我其實很希望讀到原版的譯作 🤣 感覺好像在看歐洲上演的《延禧攻略》一樣~

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