Phidias

He brought together three unique artistic talents, Phidias the sculptor, and architects Ictinus and Callicrates.

他请来了三位不同凡响的艺术天才&雕刻家裴迪亚斯，建筑师艾士提努、卡利克拉提斯。

That great sculptor, Phidias, beheld in a dream the entrancing bodies of more than human beings, and likewise, if anyone had asked the Greek poets about the mystery of poetic creation, they too would have referred him to dreams and instructed him much as Hans Sachs instructs us in Die Meistersinger:

假如你向这位古希腊诗人询问诗的创作之秘密，他同样会提出梦境，正象亨斯.萨克斯（HansSachs）在善歌者（Meistersinger）中所说的那样，对你指教：

The first great dramatists ( Aeschylus, Sophocles, Aristophanes), the greatest sculptors in history ( Phidias), and Socrates all lived in Athens in the5th century BC.

第一批伟大的剧作家（埃斯库罗斯、索福克勒斯、阿里斯托芬），历史上最杰出的雕刻家（菲迪亚斯），和苏格拉底都生活在公元前5世纪的雅典。

Who was this man who dared, singlehanded, to challenge the entire world of Hellenism--embodied in Homer, Pindar, and Aeschylus, in Phidias, Pericles, Pythia, and Dionysus--which commands our highest reverence?

是谁敢于独持己见来否定希腊的天才呢，象荷马、品达、埃斯库罗斯、斐狄亚斯、伯理克斯、乃至阿波罗与狄奥尼索斯等等天才，岂不是使我们肃然起敬，视为文化的最深渊壑和最高峰岭吗？