阿波罗起源述略——“东方说”与“北方说”

On the Origins of Apollo

阿波罗是古希腊神话中最为复杂、受崇拜最为广泛的神明。对阿波罗起源的探讨,"东方说"与"北方说"是两种重要观点。由于这两家学说相关证据的缺乏,兼顾阿波罗所体现的外来因素和希腊本土文明特征的"多起源说"的提法亦逐渐得到学界的认同,但对于阿波罗这位深刻影响着希腊宗教乃至整个西方思想的重要神明起源的进一步研究,尚有待于更多文献与考古材料的释读与发掘。

Apollo has been viewed as the most complicated and most universally worshipped deity in ancient Greek mythology.When faced with the origins of Apollo,oriental origin and North origin paralleled each other.Being the deficiency of solid evidences on which should be earlier,multiple-origin was gradually supported by some of the current scholars in that it combined the alien culture and Greek aboriginal represented by Apollo.Nevertheless,the further survey on the origin of such a deity which influenced Greek religion and the whole western thought is looking forward to the interpretation of more and more sources as well as the excavation of archeological findings.