2006 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
The study of the identities of ancient Greeks toward their communities from a diachronic point of view
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15520463
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
History of Europe and America
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| Research Institution | Kamakura Women's University |
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Principal Investigator |
HASEGAWA Takeo Kamakura Women's University, Faculty of Child Studies, Associate Professor, 児童学部, 准教授 (20308331)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2003 – 2006
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| Keywords | Greece / Roman Empire / acculturation / community / sanctuary / identity / ethnicity / polis |
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| Research Abstract |
The movements of the linguistic turn, the postmodemism and the gender studies etc. have caused the change of the paradigm since 1980's. This change also has forced us to revise our perceptions of Greco-Roman world. I have taken these movements into consideration and aimed to research the Greekness afresh by reconsidering toward which communities ancient Greeks had had the identities. For I have realized in the process of this reserch that there were many kinds of communities besides polis which has generally been regarded as the embodiment of the Greekness.
First of all, I ought to consider the nature of the Quellen. Many years have passed since inrinsic defects in the positive approch of historical studies had been pointed. I reconsidered the sources concerning the image of Classical Greece by taking these critiques above into account. As a result, it has become clear that the pervasive images of Ancient Greeks had been invented under the world of Roman empire in many aspects. So, this
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research examined the influences of the identities and perceptions of their own histories in the age of Roman domination for moulding the pervasive image of Greeks, It seems to be made clear by this research that there was a difference between the Greekness which Greeks under the Roman Empire attributed to it and the Greekness which Greeks before the Roman conquest over Greece had had. Therefore, this research analyzed the changes of their perceptions of Greekness from diachronic point of view, which extends from Archaicperiod to Roman period, especially considering the situations of Hellenistic period which has been ignored in the past, and I reconsidered the Greekness of its fundamental nature. It is realized that we will misunderstand the characteristics of Greek communities if our own perceptions of Modem States are applied to recognize the nature of Greek communities, because their identities had been mutable according to their situation. It seems that various kinds of communities had existed, and ancient Greeks had had various identities synchronically through common participations in various kinds of religious rites. Finally this research has concluded that it is a characteristic of the Greekness. So it is indispensable for the study of the Greekness to emphasize the irrational aspects of religious ties in various kinds of ancient Greek communities. Less
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[Journal Article] Aspects of Hellenistic Age.2006
Author(s)
Takeo Hasegawa
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Journal Title
Daigaku de Manabu Seiyoshi Kodai Cyusei(Westem History of University Textbook. Ancient and Medieval), Minerva Syobou
Pages: 47-62
Description
「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
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