古希腊悲剧的礼法问题——索福克勒斯悲剧主题研究之三

Rituals in the Greek Tragedy:Series 3 of the Thematic Study of Sophocles

理解古希腊悲剧的主题,就得进入剧作的线索脉络,情节线索恰是人物冲突的充分表现,而人物冲突又构成政治和礼法理解的重要线索。本文试图以索福克勒斯的经典剧作《俄狄浦斯在科罗诺斯》为例,分析其中两类王者:君王和僭主的政治和礼法理解,及两类王者的品性,其中包含俄狄浦斯之罪的问题,由此试图探察古希腊悲剧的礼法问题。

One of the keys to the understanding of the Greek tragedy is the plot and the conflict among the characters, which provides further clue to the politics and the rituals of the ancient Greece.Taking Aedipus in Kronos,the paper analyses the two types of rules：the monarch and the usurper and the characteristics of each of them in terms of rituals as depicted in the tragedy.