The Seven against Thebes《七勇攻忒拜》

陳中梅譯《七勇攻忒拜》，收入《埃斯庫羅斯悲劇集》，瀋陽：遼寧教育，1999，頁71-140

Scene from the Seven against Thebes: Capaneus scales the city wall of Thebes, Campanian red-figure amphora, ca. 340 BC, Getty Villa (92.AE.86)
Written by	Aeschylus
Chorus	Theban Women
Characters	Eteocles Antigone Ismene Messenger
Setting	Citadel of Thebes

The Seven against Thebes (Ancient Greek: Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ Θήβας, Hepta epi Thēbas; Latin: Septem contra Thebas) is the third play in an Oedipus-themed trilogy produced by Aeschylus in 467 BC. The trilogy is sometimes referred to as the Oedipodea.[1] It concerns the battle between an Argive army led by Polynices and the army of Thebes led by Eteocles and his supporters. The trilogy won the first prize at the City Dionysia. Its first two plays, Laius and Oedipus as well as the satyr play Sphinx are no longer extant. 誓い合う七将。アルフレッド・チャーチ作  《七將攻忒拜》，或譯為七雄攻忒拜，是古希臘劇作家埃斯庫羅斯的悲劇作品，故事講述了忒拜王子爭奪王位自相殘殺而死的故事。稍晚的歐里庇得斯也就相同的題材作了一部《腓尼基婦女》。 俄狄浦斯的兒子波呂尼刻斯被弟弟厄忒俄克勒斯從忒拜逐出後來到阿耳戈斯，並娶了阿耳戈斯國王的大女兒阿爾琪柯成為國王阿德剌斯托斯的女婿。 阿耳戈斯國王 阿德拉斯托斯、波呂尼刻斯，堤丟斯、預言家 安菲阿剌俄斯，國王之侄卡帕紐斯，以及國王之兄弟希波邁冬和帕耳忒諾派俄斯。共七位英雄率領七支軍隊遠征底比斯以幫助波呂尼克斯奪回王位。 在經過了一段時間的戰鬥後，波呂尼克斯與厄忒俄克勒斯決定單獨決鬥。厄忒俄克勒斯一劍刺中了波呂尼克斯的腹部，以為取得了勝利，在彎腰揀拾兄長的武器時被垂死的波呂尼克斯一劍刺死。 波呂尼克斯曾想讓臨死的俄狄浦斯回到底比斯鞏固自己的統治，俄狄浦斯詛咒：「你無法毀滅你父親的城市，你和你弟弟必然會躺在你們自己的血泊之中。」現在這詛咒變成了現實。 雙方都認為自己一方才算勝利。阿耳戈斯軍想再攻打忒拜，但忒拜軍隊在觀看決鬥時仍保持著戰鬥的隊形，向亂作一團的阿耳戈斯軍隊殺來。阿耳戈斯軍隊慘敗潰退。 七英雄遠征忒拜之戰後，俄狄浦斯的家族幾乎被完全毀滅。  Æschylus himself is reported to have said that his tragedies were “slices from the great banquet of Homer.” The metaphor is not a very pleasing one, but it expresses a truth.146 By Homer, Æschylus meant not only our Iliad and Odyssey, but the whole body of Epic or Heroic poetry which centred round not only the Siege of Troy but the great expedition of the Seven Against Thebes, and which, moreover, contained the stories of the heroes before the siege began, and their adventures after it was ended. It was from these heroic sagas for the most part, though not wholly, that the myths or plots of not only Æschylus but also Sophocles and Euripides, and a host of other writers whose plays are lost to us, are taken. The new wine that was poured into the old bottles of the dromena at the Spring Festival was the heroic saga. We know as an historical fact, the name of the man who was mainly responsible for this inpouring—the great democratic tyrant Peisistratos. We must look for a moment at what Peisistratos found, and then pass to what he did. The Internet Classics Archive | The Seven Against Thebes by ... classics.mit.edu/Aeschylus/seventhebes.html - 頁庫存檔 - 翻譯這個網頁 The Seven Against Thebes By Aeschylus. Commentary: A few comments have been posted about The Seven Against Thebes. Download: A 51k text-only ...  『テーバイ攻めの七将』（テーバイぜめのななしょう）は古代アテーナイの詩人アイスキュロスによるギリシア悲劇。ギリシア神話で古代都市テーバイの王権をめぐる戦いの物語に基づく。