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A STUDY ON ACCEPTANCE OF DEATH IN GREEK TRAGEDY

Research Project

Project/Area Number 10610535
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field 文学一般(含文学論・比較文学)・西洋古典
Research InstitutionNagoya University

Principal Investigator

YOSHITAKE Sumio  UNIVERSITY,GRADUATE SCHOOL OF LETTERS / ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, 文学研究科, 助教授 (70254729)

Project Period (FY) 1998 – 2000
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2001)
Budget Amount *help
¥1,900,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,900,000)
Fiscal Year 2000: ¥600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000)
Fiscal Year 1999: ¥600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000)
Fiscal Year 1998: ¥700,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000)
KeywordsDEATH / THANATOS / KALOS / DEATH IN WAR / ANTIGONE / GREEK TRAGEDY / KALOS THANATOS / BEAUTIFUL DEATH / 自殺 / 女性 / 死の受容 / ソポクレス / 婚礼 / 葬礼 / 葬礼競技
Research Abstract

There are many scenes of Greek Tragedy in which characters accept death. There is certain difference of the conditions of accepting death between males and females. It is remarkable that females are less favoured by chance of attaining a good death than males, while most of them both try to attain it. This fact is symbolised in the death of the heroin of the Antigone. She buries her brother in the belief that she can attain a kalos thanatos (a beautiful death) without fail as a result of this act, but eventually she cannot attain it in the prison where she hangs herself. This reflects the fact that women werer not entitled to kalos thanatos in their days. Up to the age of Greek Tragedy death had not been described as kalos if it was not a death in battle. Kalos thanatos had been defined in the 7cBC by Tyrtaios as 'a death died while combatting on the front', and any death had not been claimed to be good in the objective and absolute sense- at least. In the 5cBC, however, many tragedies questioned if a kalos thanatos was available without the warfare context. They did not give the answer in the affirmative.

Report

(4 results)
  • 2001 Final Research Report Summary
  • 2000 Annual Research Report
  • 1999 Annual Research Report
  • 1998 Annual Research Report
  • Research Products

    (14 results)

All Other

All Publications (14 results)

  • [Publications] 吉武 純夫: "アキレウスの賞品供与(パトロクロスのための葬礼競技における)"名古屋大学文学部研究論集. 133(文学45). 45-60 (1999)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2001 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 吉武 純夫: "アンティゴネの手(ニコル・ロローの仏語論文の翻訳)"現代思想. 27-9. 130-160 (1999)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2001 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 吉武 純夫: "カロス・タナトス、アンティゴネの目指したもの"西洋古典学研究. 50. 45-55 (2002)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2001 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 阿部 泰郎(編)(共著): ""文明"とは何か"野蛮"とは何か:新しい人文学の構築をめざして"名古屋大学文学研究科. 64 (2001)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2001 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] YOSHITAKE,Sumio: "Achilles' Bounty : the Funeral Games of Patroklos"THE JOURNAL OF LETTERS NAGOYA UNIVERSITY. 133(LITERATURE 45). 45-60 (1999)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2001 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] YOSHITAKE,Sumio: "The Hand of antigone (Japanese translation of N.Loraux's 'La main d'Antigone')"REVUE DE LA PENSEE D'AUJOURD'HUI. 27-9. 130-60 (1999)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2001 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] YOSHITAKE,Sumio: "Kalos thanatos"JOURNAL OF CLASSICAL STUDIES. 50. 45-55 (2002)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2001 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] YOSHITAKE,Sumio: "Barbarism within the polis : Society and Myth in Ancient Greece"Y. ABE AND M. OGAWA. 36-49 (2001)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2001 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 吉武純夫: "アンティゴネの手(N.Loraux,"La main d′Antigone"の翻訳)"現代思想. 27巻・9号. 130-160 (1999)

    • Related Report
      2000 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 吉武純夫: "アキレウスの賞品供与(パトロクロスのための葬礼競技における)"名古屋大学文学部研究論集. 131(文学45). 45-60 (1999)

    • Related Report
      2000 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 吉武純夫: "ポリスの中の野蛮-古代ギリシアの神話と社会-"文明とは何か、野蛮とは何か-新しい人文学の構築をめざして-. 36-49 (2001)

    • Related Report
      2000 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 吉武純夫: "アンティゴネの手(N.Loraux, 'la main d'Antigone'の翻訳)"現代思想. 27巻9号. 130-160 (1999)

    • Related Report
      1999 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 吉武純夫: "アキレウスの賞品供与(パトロクロスのための葬礼競技における)"名古屋大学文学部研究論集. 131(文学45). 45-60 (1999)

    • Related Report
      1999 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 吉武純夫: "アキレウスの賞品供与(パトロクロスのための葬礼競技における)" 『名古屋大学文学部研究論集』. 131(文学45)(印刷中). (1999)

    • Related Report
      1998 Annual Research Report

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