每一个民族在踏上历史舞台之后,为了巩固自己的合法地位,大都希望以撰史的方式来塑造属于自己的辉煌的过去。当罗马帝国、“蛮族国家”和近代民族国家英格兰崛起之时,都共同面对着荷马史诗中的特洛伊战役。同时,它们又因为与这一古代重大事件相隔得越来越久,再加上人类历史意识的更新,三个时代的学者的脑海中就形成了各自不同的包含特洛伊的过去,也对各自的民族起源形成了有联系而又有区别的形象。 After every nation has embarked on the stage of history, in order to consolidate its legal status, most of all nations hope to create their own glorious past by writing history. When the Roman Empire, the “barbarian state” and the rise of modern nation-state England all faced the Battle of Troy in Homer’s epic. At the same time, because they were separated from this ancient event for a long time, and with the renewal of the historical awareness of mankind, scholars of the three ages formed their own separate pasts containing Troy and their own nationalities Origin formed a linked but differentiated image.