不完满的斗士——埃斯库罗斯笔下的普罗米修斯

An Imperfect Fighter: Prometheus by Aeschylus

作为文学作品中较早出现的普罗米修斯形象,埃斯库罗斯笔下的普罗米修斯与僭主宙斯相对立,显示出明显的古希腊时期民主斗士的形象特点,但这一本该拥有无限光辉的神却在自身的智慧与民主政治理想上体现出双重的不完满性。在雅典民主政治得到初步发展、民众憎恶僭主的时代,埃斯库罗斯创作出这样一个不完满的民主斗士形象,一方面源自其政治思想与宗教思想的矛盾,另一方面也体现出他对雅典民主政治现实的思考。

As an early image of Prometheus in early literary works,Aeschylus’s Prometheus is opposite to the tyrant Zeus,which impressively shows the image characteristics of democratic fighters in the Hellenistic era.However,this image of god,which should be infinitely brilliant,shows double imperfections in its own wisdom and democratic political ideal.In the era of the initial development of Athenian democratic politics,people hate tyrants.Aeschylus created such an imperfect democratic fighter,which not only originated from the contradiction between his political thought and religious thought,but also reflected his reflection on the reality of Athenian democratic politics.