| Budget Amount *help |
¥3,710,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Fiscal Year 2007: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Fiscal Year 2006: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000)
Fiscal Year 2005: ¥1,500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,500,000)
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| Research Abstract |
Our Research-project aimed at investigating various works of Greek and Latin literature from the point of view of literary tradition and innovation with the help of modern interpretative theory of intertextuality. We first endeavoured to grasp the state of previous studies by surveying and acquiring academic literature on various stylistic features such as phraseology, rhetorical figures, narrative techniques etc. and also on traditional motifs, topoi and themes in classical literature as well as on individual works. We then made philological analysis of each work utilizing editions, commentaries, modern translations, concordances and/or CD-ROMs for the reference of words and phrases, always paying attention to the intertextual relationships of the work with other work(s) in the same genre or sometimes in different genre(s) (including the author's own works), whose tradition often extends over Greek and Latin literary history. For instance, we investigated the relationship between Home
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r's epics (Iliad and Odyssey) and Virgil's Aeneid, Hesiod+Aratus and Lucretius+Virgil's Georgica, Greek lyric poetry and Horace's Carmina, tragedies of Euripides and Seneca, and so on. Direct and indirect results of this research are shown in the different heading of this report (11. REFERENCES') as 4 items of 'Research Presentation and 6 items of Books or Journal Publications'. We can also point to an explanatory comment to the Japanese translation of Seneca's Epistulae Morales by Oshiba (2006), in which the method of investigation in this Research-project could be applied to the philosophical prose of the Roman Imperial Period. Through these investigations on individual works applying the theory of intertextuality we could, to be sure to a certain extent, make it even more certain that the individual works of Greek and Latin literature were always interconnected with other works in so many aspects of both form and content, and that the very creativity of each work consists in its unique relationship with the tradition, in other words, that the poets and authors were always conscious of the literary tradition to which they belong, and in both stylistic features and contents each work was created through this lively responsiveness, in which we can find the flexibility and creativity of the tradition of classical literature. Thus we consider it very meaningful to have applied the theory of intertextuality to the critical analyses of classical literary texts, and we hope we can further continue and develop our studies on Greek and Latin literature on the basis of this Research-project. Less
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