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Generation gap in the Athenian Democracy

Research Project

Project/Area Number 03610197
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for General Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Research Field History of Europe and America
Research InstitutionUniversity of Tokyo

Principal Investigator

ITO Sadao  University of Tokyo, Faculty of Letters, Professor, 文学部, 教授 (20011322)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) HASHIBA Yuzuru  University of Tokyo, Faculty of Letters, Assistant, 文学部, 助手 (10212135)
Project Period (FY) 1991 – 1992
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 1992)
Budget Amount *help
¥1,800,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,800,000)
Fiscal Year 1992: ¥500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000)
Fiscal Year 1991: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000)
KeywordsGreece / democracy / family / generation gap / police / children / Athens / oligarchy
Research Abstract

Tension between the young and the old exists in all times and regions. It is so common that we are not justified in considering it as belonging only to classical Athens.
The generation gap in Athens in 420s B. C., however, is so unprecedented in Athenian history that we could treat it as one of the most striking scenes in Athenian democracy. In the course of the Peloponnesian War, the young men of the upper classes protested against the established oder of the radical democracy, which the old were staunch supporters of. Confrontation between the two generations was to be found in almost all phrases of the political and social life of Athens, e. g., ideology, religion, fashion and way of life.
How related to each other were the generation gap and the radicalism of the Athenian democracy ? Why did it emerge especially in this period ? Members of this project try to analyze this social phenomenon and search for its historical factor.
Ito pointed out the influence of some social groups tied with kinship, namely phratry and genos, to the Athenian democratic institutions. He asserts that the citizenship of Athens was premised on the introduction of children to a phratry. Hashiba made it clear that the generation gap did not result from a class struggle as M. Ostwald insisted in 1986. He bilt up a hypothesis that the decline of a paternal image, symbolically represented by Zeus, was the single most important factor in accounting for this phenomenon.

Report

(3 results)
  • 1992 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report Summary
  • 1991 Annual Research Report
  • Research Products

    (8 results)

All Other

All Publications (8 results)

  • [Publications] 伊藤 貞夫: "アテネ人庶子の法的地位をめぐって-古代ギリシア史研究の一動向-" 史学雑誌. 101-1. 70-98 (1992)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1992 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 橋場 弦: "マラソン伝説の起源とアテネ民主政" 歴史と地理. 444. 1-13 (1992)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1992 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Ito, Sadao: "The Legal Status of Athenian Bastards. A Critical Note." Shigaku Zasshi. 101-1. 70-98 (1992)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1992 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Hashiba, Yuzuru: "Marathon." Rekishi to Chiri(History and Geography). 444. 1-13 (1992)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1992 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 伊藤 貞夫: "アテネ人庶子の法的地位をめぐってー古代ギリシア史研究のー動向ー" 史学雑誌. 101-1. 70-98 (1992)

    • Related Report
      1992 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 橋場 弦: "マラソン伝説の起源とアテネ民主政" 歴史と地理. 444. 1-13 (1992)

    • Related Report
      1992 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 伊藤 貞夫: "1980年代の古代ギリシア家族研究" 史学雑誌. 100ー4. 55-84 (1991)

    • Related Report
      1991 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 橋場 弦: "古典期アテナイにおける罪と法ー弾劾法(ノモス・エイサンゲルテイコス)の性格をめぐってー" 歴史学研究. 629. 1-14 (1992)

    • Related Report
      1991 Annual Research Report

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Published: 1991-04-01   Modified: 2016-04-21  

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