悲劇的誕生The Birth Of Tragedy 第77期:衆人皆醉我獨醒

As a poet, then, Euripides was principally concerned with rendering his conscious perceptions, and it is this which gives him his position of importance in the history of Greek drama.

所以，歐裏庇德斯，作爲詩人來說，首先是他自己的自覺認識的回聲，而正是這點使他在希臘藝術史佔居這樣顯著地位。

With regard to his poetic procedure, which was both critical and creative, he must often have felt that he was applying to drama the opening words of Anaxagoras' treatise:

就他的批判創作活動而論，他定必常常覺得應該把亞拿薩哥拉著作開章這句話靈活運用於戲曲上：

"In the beginning all things were mixed together; then reason came and introduced order."

“泰初萬物混淆，然後理性出現，創立秩序。”

And even as Anaxagoras, with his concept of reason, seems like the first sober philosopher in a company of drunkards, so Euripides may have appeared to himself as the first rational maker of tragedy.

亞拿薩哥拉首倡voAua（理性），在哲學家中他有如“衆人皆醉我獨醒”。歐裏庇德斯也許認爲自己對其餘悲劇詩人們的關係也是處在這樣的情況。

Everything was mixed together in a chaotic stew so long as reason, the sole principle of universal order, remained excluded from the creative act.

只要萬物的唯一統治者和安排者“理性”仍被排斥於藝術活動之外，萬物始終是混淆，處於羅始的渾沌狀態。

Being of this opinion, Euripides had necessarily to reject his less rational peers.

所以，歐裏庇德斯必須當機立斷，所以，他必須以第一個清醒者的姿態來批判那些醉漢詩人。

Euripides would never have endorsed Sophocles' statement about Aeschylus--that this poet was doing the right thing, but unconsciously; instead he would have claimed that since Aeschylus created unconsciously he couldn't help doing the wrong cling.

索福克勒斯曾謂埃斯庫羅斯做了正確的事，雖則是無意爲之，但是歐裏庇德斯當然不會持此見解。反之，他卻認爲，埃斯庫羅斯正因爲無意爲之，所以做了錯誤的事。