| Budget Amount *help |
¥3,100,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,100,000)
Fiscal Year 2006: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000)
Fiscal Year 2005: ¥1,800,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,800,000)
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| Research Abstract |
The Greek Comedy, titled as the Plutos is studied in this project. The Plutos is the last extant comedy of Aristophanes, which was produced in 388 BC. Plutos is the god of Wealth, personified as the blind old man in this play. Aristophanes critically observes the human behavior of his days, and offers the contemporary view in ironical touch that the human condition would be best defined in economic terms: men may be good or bad, but what matters is whether they have money or not.
Such a fundamentally economic theory of human nature attracts our attention, as it also reflects, at least partly, our own society of the present day.
In order to make a research on this problem, firstly I tried to make a new translation of this comedy. The first Japanese translations of Aristophanes' comedies were published as old as 1961. As the revised translation has never been published since then, the new translation is now demanded. To answer this demand, I attempted the completely new translation. After this, I studied to make the detailed commentary of this play. This new translation with its commentary is going to be published from Iwanami Shoten in a few years.
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