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Brightness and Colour: Studies on their Interconnection and Representations in the Literature of Antiquity

Research Project

Project/Area Number 17K02608
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Section一般
Research Field European literature
Research InstitutionOsaka University (2023)
Kyoto Seika University (2017-2022)

Principal Investigator

Saito Yukiko  大阪大学, 大学院人文学研究科(人文学専攻、芸術学専攻、日本学専攻), 招へい教員 (60411948)

Project Period (FY) 2017-04-01 – 2024-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2023)
Budget Amount *help
¥4,550,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,050,000)
Fiscal Year 2020: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Fiscal Year 2019: ¥1,820,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥420,000)
Fiscal Year 2018: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Fiscal Year 2017: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Keywords光輝き / ホメロス / (共)感覚 / 古代ギリシア / 景観 / 多彩性 / 芸術的創造性 / 空間の輝き / 光・輝き / aiolos / イメージ / 感性 / 認識 / 創造性 / 色彩 / 輝き / 色彩感覚 / sigaloeis / 紫(porphureos) / 葡萄酒色の海 / porphureos / 紫 / 共感覚 / 光と輝き / Argos / Marmareos / 海の色と輝き / 色彩表現の表象生 / 色と音 / 色彩感覚と認識論 / ホメロス叙事詩 / 色彩表現の表象性 / 認識論 / 共感覚(synaesthesia) / 紫(Purple) 、青(Blue)の多彩性 / 海 / 物語の創造性 / 色と輝き / 『イリアス』『オデュッセイア』 / 色彩とシンボル / 色彩表現とジェンダー / 共感覚(synaesthesia) / ホメロス / Homer / 色彩表現 / 表象 / イメージとシンボル / argos / ジェンダー / leukos / 西洋古典学 / 光
Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research project attempts to visualise the Homeric epics, pursuing how light and light-related expressions (e.g., sigaloeis, marmareos, aiolos, etc.) could be perceived as moving around, inside, and outside the Homeric narrative, through colour/light-related epistemological investigation. It presents novel concepts which can broaden our thinking about how Homeric bright sceneries could possibly be visualised, in terms of 'texts as kinetic design.' Colour and light connect us all, over time and space. They move constantly, entailing countless gradations. Brightening or darkening the sceneries and context, bright light is also co-involved with divinity, which is unfixed and ambiguous. As a spectator viewing Homeric sceneries, I underline the significance of the poet's aesthetics of colour and evocation of light that enriches our imagination, in correspondence with the sense and recognition of his bright world, which involves awe-inspiring divinity.

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

従来顧みられることのなかった色彩の上に映える光と輝きの深層を探究し、詩人の采配による景観描写であるという一定の見解を示し、認知科学の知識を取り込むことによって、新たな活路、即ち動きある感覚や感情を踏まえて原典を扱うという発展性のある方向性への前進は、斯界研究に新たな視点を投じた。光と陰影とのシームレスな連関性も重要事項として捉え、「輝いている」ことについて文学的視点から考察し、区別し基準化を促進する傾向に問いを投げかけると同時に、輝く多彩なカラー(個性)の重要性の認識について社会にメッセージを送ったことは、多岐にわたって学術的関心を惹きつけ、学術的にも社会的にも大きな意義があると確信する。

Report

(8 results)
  • 2023 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2022 Research-status Report
  • 2021 Research-status Report
  • 2020 Research-status Report
  • 2019 Research-status Report
  • 2018 Research-status Report
  • 2017 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (33 results)

All 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017

All Journal Article (9 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 4 results,  Peer Reviewed: 9 results,  Open Access: 4 results) Presentation (13 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 11 results,  Invited: 3 results) Book (10 results) Funded Workshop (1 results)

  • [Journal Article] The Flowing Colour of Religious Meli and its Transformed Metaphorical Function in Homer2024

    • Author(s)
      Yukiko Saito
    • Journal Title

      フィロカリア

      Volume: 41 Pages: 1-20

    • Related Report
      2023 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Viewing Gleaming, Rapidly-Moving Scenery with Aiolos: Brilliance and Motion Reflected within Transformed Religious Aspects in Homer2024

    • Author(s)
      Yukiko Saito
    • Journal Title

      New Classicists

      Volume: -

    • Related Report
      2023 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Journal Article] Sensing Colourful Brightness and Emotion: Sigaloeis and its Transformed, Metaphorical Dual Function in Homeric Poetry2024

    • Author(s)
      Yukiko Saito
    • Journal Title

      Archivi delle emozioni

      Volume: -

    • Related Report
      2023 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] ホメロスによる sigaloeis の采配 ―「輝いている」ことの捉え方に関する一考ー2023

    • Author(s)
      西塔由貴子
    • Journal Title

      文芸学研究

      Volume: 26 Pages: 1-26

    • Related Report
      2022 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Marmareos; 『イリアス』の中の輝く世界の一局面を探る2020

    • Author(s)
      西塔由貴子
    • Journal Title

      『文芸学研究』

      Volume: 23 Pages: 68-96

    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Colour in Motion: A Comparative Study of Some Brightly Shining Aspects of Sea-Glow2018

    • Author(s)
      Yukiko Saito
    • Journal Title

      Estudios Culturales; Congreso Internacional La cultura desde una perspectiva multidisciplinar, Spain

      Volume: 1 Pages: 263-280

    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Cheating colour: brightness transformed into representation of female characteristics in the Iliad2018

    • Author(s)
      Yukiko Saito
    • Journal Title

      Electra; Centre for the Study of Myth and Religion in Greek and Roman Antiquity, founded by the Patras University Department of Philology, Greece

      Volume: 4 Pages: 123-152

    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Brightness and Movement of Argos in Homer’s Iliad2018

    • Author(s)
      Yukiko Saito
    • Journal Title

      Acta Antiqua Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae (Hungary)

      Volume: 56 (4) Issue: 4 Pages: 399-419

    • DOI

      10.1556/068.2016.56.4.1

    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Colour in Motion: A Comparative Study of Some Brightly Shining Aspects of Sea-Glow2018

    • Author(s)
      Yukiko Saito
    • Journal Title

      Cultural Studies (Spain)

      Volume: ---

    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] The Other War: The Transformed Phases of Femininity through Viewing Colour, Brightness, and Gender in Homer2024

    • Author(s)
      Yukiko Saito
    • Organizer
      War in the Ancient World International Conference, the Institute of Classics in Graz, June 2024,
    • Related Report
      2023 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Presentation] Sensing Illuminated Olympos over Time and Space, along with its Transformed Religious Aspects in Homer2024

    • Author(s)
      Yukiko Saito
    • Organizer
      EAA Annual Conference, Sapienza University of Rome, August 2024
    • Related Report
      2023 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Viewing Gleaming, Rapidly-Mobile Scenery with Aiolos: Brilliance and Motion Reflected within its Transformed Religious Aspects in Homer2023

    • Author(s)
      Yukiko Saito
    • Organizer
      The ACE & CREATIVITY Conference Zoom, The Department of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology, University of Liverpool, UK
    • Related Report
      2023 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Presenting the Development of Reconciliation in Iliad 24 through Sight and Touch2022

    • Author(s)
      Yukiko Saito
    • Organizer
      International Conference: The Art of Reconciliation in Classical Antiquity
    • Related Report
      2022 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Presenting the Development of Reconciliation in Iliad 24 through Sight and Touch2022

    • Author(s)
      Yukiko SAITO
    • Organizer
      International Conference: The Art of Reconciliation in Classical Antiquity
    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Brightness - Sigaloeis; - Sensed and its Transformed Metaphorical Function within Homeric Poetry2021

    • Author(s)
      Yukiko SAITO
    • Organizer
      European Association of Archaeologists: ‘Touching Objects, Feeling Materials’: Material Transformations, Technology and Sensoriality in Ancient Material Culture
    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Brightness - Sigaloeis - Sensed and its Transformed Metaphorical Function within Homeric Poetry2021

    • Author(s)
      Yukiko Saito
    • Organizer
      European Association of Archaeologists
    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Bright Blue Sea in Homer2020

    • Author(s)
      Yukiko SAITO
    • Organizer
      The Colour Blue in Ancient Egypt and Sudan (Centre for Textile Research, University of Copenhagen, Denmark) in March 2020
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Porphureos: Aspects of the Transformative Role of Bright Colour-Hues in Interior Space in Homer2019

    • Author(s)
      Yukiko SAITO
    • Organizer
      EAA Conference 4-7 September 2019; 25th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists (University of Bern, Switzerland), 6th September 2019
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Marmareos -『イリアス』の中の輝く世界の一局面を探る2018

    • Author(s)
      西塔由貴子
    • Organizer
      第63回文芸学研究発表会(於 大阪大学)
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] Seeing ‘Colour’ in Homer’s Iliad2018

    • Author(s)
      Yukiko Saito
    • Organizer
      The National Hellenic Research Foundation / Section of Greek and Roman Antiquity (Athens, Greece)
    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] Colour and Gender: Bright Hues Transformed into the Representation of Females in the Iliad2018

    • Author(s)
      Yukiko Saito
    • Organizer
      GENDER’S FAULT: IDENTITIES, TRANSGRESSIONS AND INTERCONNECTIONS IN THE ANCIENT WORLD (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain)
    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Characterisation and Colour within the Representation of Sleep in the Iliad2017

    • Author(s)
      Yukiko Saito
    • Organizer
      That Other Crowd: Nethergods in the ancient Greek mythical imagination (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munich, Germany)
    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Book] A provisional title - Furnished Interiors in the Ancient Mediterranean and Egypt, D. Andrianou (ed.)2023

    • Author(s)
      Y. Saito, "Porphureos: Aspects of the Transformative Role of Bright Colour-Hues in Interior Space in Homer"
    • Publisher
      Brepols Publishers(ベルギー)
    • Related Report
      2022 Research-status Report
  • [Book] A provisional title - The Art of Reconciliation in Classical Antiquity, G. Evangelou, A. Shilo, and S. Tzounakas (eds.)2023

    • Author(s)
      Y. Saito, "Presenting the Development of Reconciliation in Iliad 24 through Sight and Touch"
    • Publisher
      Mohr Siebeck(ドイツ)
    • Related Report
      2022 Research-status Report
  • [Book] ホメロスと色彩2022

    • Author(s)
      西塔 由貴子
    • Total Pages
      288
    • Publisher
      京都大学学術出版会
    • ISBN
      9784814004522
    • Related Report
      2022 Research-status Report
  • [Book] A provisional title(仮)- "Furnished Interiors in the Ancient Mediterranean and Egypt, Proceedings of the session presented within the 25th Annual International Meeting, European Association of Archaeologists, Bern, September 6th, 20192022

    • Author(s)
      Y. SAITO "Porphureos: Aspects of the Transformative Role of Bright Colour-Hues in Interior Space in Homer"
    • Publisher
      Brepols Publishers (ベルギー)
    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
  • [Book] Epica Marina I, 22020

    • Author(s)
      Yukiko Saito,"Viewing the Sparkling Scenery of the Sea with Marmareos" (pp. 37-71).
    • Total Pages
      324
    • Publisher
      Universita degli Studi di Milano: Dipartimento di Studi letterari, filologici e linguistici
    • ISBN
      9788855264051
    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
  • [Book] Ricerche a Confronto 2015. Dialoghi di Antichita; Classiche e del Vicino Oriente2020

    • Author(s)
      Yukiko Saito,"A Fast-flash Shining Aspect of Homeric Colour Expressions" (pp. 101-137).
    • Total Pages
      456
    • Publisher
      Edizioni Saecula
    • ISBN
      9788898291816
    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
  • [Book] Ricerche a Confronto; Dialoghi di Antichita Classica e del Vicino Oriente2020

    • Author(s)
      Yukiko SAITO, “A Fast-flash Shining Aspect of Homeric Colour Expressions”
    • Publisher
      Richerche a Confront (Bologna, Italy)
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
  • [Book] Ricerche a Confronto; Dialoghi di Antichita Classica e del Vicino Oriente2019

    • Author(s)
      Saito, Y., “A Fast-flash Shining Aspect of Homeric Colour Expressions”
    • Publisher
      Richerche a Confront (Bologna, Italy)
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
  • [Book] HARTS & Minds: The Journal of Humanities and Art, 4.1: Chromatography Special Issue2018

    • Author(s)
      Saito, Y., "Some Remarks on Brightness in Homer’s Iliad"
    • Total Pages
      120
    • Publisher
      HARTS & Minds, London (UK)
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
  • [Book] Ricerche a Confronto - Dialoghi di Antichita; Classica e del Vicino Oriente2018

    • Author(s)
      Yukiko Saito, “A Fast-flash Shining Aspect of Homeric Colour Expressions”
    • Publisher
      ---
    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
  • [Funded Workshop] 特別講演会 キクラデス諸島の輝き2024

    • Related Report
      2023 Annual Research Report

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