Abstract:Audiences find Euripides's Hecuba unremittingly bleak, and critics find its composition confused. I argue that the play has an aesthetic integrity throughout its composition that derives from Euripides's use of the Odyssey's Cyclops episode, and that a study of the several ways in which Homer's symbolism is used reveals the play to be a profound examination of the nature of justice and injustice, vengeance and barbarism. Euripides exposes the "barbarian" in the heart of every character: it is the Cyclops within, a Cyclopean tendency in the soul that has brutal but also sophisticated expressions. He even indicts his audience.

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“从你心中驱逐野蛮人”：欧里庇得斯的赫卡巴中独眼巨人的暗示

摘要：欧里庇得斯的《赫卡巴》让观众一直觉得黯淡无光，评论家觉得它的构图很混乱。我认为该剧在整个构图上具有美学完整性，这源于欧里庇得斯对奥德赛的独眼巨人一集的使用，并且对荷马象征主义的几种使用方式的研究表明该剧是对正义本质的深刻审视以及不公正、报复和野蛮。欧里庇得斯揭示了每个角色内心深处的“野蛮人”：它是内心的独眼巨人，灵魂中的独眼巨人倾向，具有残酷但也有复杂的表达方式。他甚至控诉他的听众。