The Derveni Papyrus and its historical backgound

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25580162
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: History of Europe and America
• Research Institution: The University of Tokyo
• Principal Investigator: Sakurai Mariko 東京大学, 人文社会系研究科, 名誉教授 (90011329)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 古代ギリシア / アテナイ / デルヴェニ / ペルシア / 宗教 / 多神教 / 一神教 / オルフェウス

Outline of Final Research Achievements

I have finished the rough translation of the DP text, but have to admit that I need to improve it by way of inspecting Editio Princeps more in detail and other provisionally edited texts and their commentaries as carefully as possible. At the same time, I have been studying on the Orphism in the fifth century during which the author of DP lived his life, and got a conclusion that Orphism in DP could be understood more appropriately and accurately from a perspective of the international and intercultural relation between Greece and Persia.

Free Research Field

西洋史，古代ギリシア史