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Cross-cultural studies in the public areas and democratic codes in ancient Greece

Research Project

Project/Area Number 17520496
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field History of Europe and America
Research InstitutionThe University of Tokyo (2006-2007)
Osaka University of Foreign Studies (2005)

Principal Investigator

HASHIBA Yuzuru  The University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, Associate Professor (10212135)

Project Period (FY) 2005 – 2007
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2007)
Budget Amount *help
¥3,810,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Fiscal Year 2007: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Fiscal Year 2006: ¥1,200,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000)
Fiscal Year 2005: ¥1,700,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,700,000)
KeywordsGreece / democracy / Athens / public areas / polis / arbitration / litigation / law / ギリシャ / 賄賂 / 贈与 / 法制度
Research Abstract

1. In the first place the Head Investigator has tried to figure out the whole structure of the democratic codes in classical Athens by collecting literary and epigraphical evidence on the public areas and civic codes in ancient Greek poleis. As a result, he suggests that the democratic codes of classical Athens lacked a consistent and coherent system, as is found in modern constitutions, and consisted of a wide range of social values and ideologies, which had been formed in the course of historical developments from the Archaic period : the Athenian citizens believed that their democracy was a traditional style of life, rather than a political institution.
2. Secondly he goes on to examine the evidence on the litigious cases described by the Attic orators in the fourth century B. C. in order to find out how the Athenians successfully solved social conflicts on the daily basis without intervention of police power, and discovers an idea of public mindedness that did not need a centralized authority. In case of litigious conflicts the concerned parties were assisted not only by their relatives, close friends, and fellow members of their demes, but also by 'hoi parontes', passers-by, who occasionally witnessed the injured parties and were public-minded enough to help them from the standpoint of public interests.
3. The Head Investigator concludes from the above-mentioned considerations that the public areas of the Athenian democracy had a multilayered structure, consisting of various interemadiate groups such as families, friends, contemporaries, demes and phratries, and also that every citizen could nevertheless be expected to behave in terms of the public interests of the polis, which superseded the particular interests of each intermediate group.

Report

(4 results)
  • 2007 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report Summary
  • 2006 Annual Research Report
  • 2005 Annual Research Report
  • Research Products

    (9 results)

All 2007 2006 2005

All Journal Article (7 results) (of which Peer Reviewed: 1 results) Book (2 results)

  • [Journal Article] アッティカの旅2007

    • Author(s)
      橋場 弦
    • Journal Title

      地中海学会月報 300

      Pages: 6-6

    • Related Report
      2007 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] Athenian bribery reconsidered: some legal aspects2006

    • Author(s)
      Yuzuru Hashiba
    • Journal Title

      Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society (Cambridge Classical Journal) 52

      Pages: 62-80

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2007 Final Research Report Summary
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Athenian bribery reconsidered : some legal aspects2006

    • Author(s)
      Yuzuru Hashiba
    • Journal Title

      Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society(Cambridge Classical Journal) 52

      Pages: 62-80

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2007 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Journal Article] Ancient and Medieval history for university students2006

    • Author(s)
      Yoshihisa Hattori, et. al.
    • Journal Title

      Minerva publisher

      Pages: 24-37

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2007 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Journal Article] Athenian bribery reconsidered : some legal aspects2006

    • Author(s)
      Yuzuru Hashiba
    • Journal Title

      Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society 52

      Pages: 62-80

    • Related Report
      2006 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] ギリシア演劇とアテナイ民主政2005

    • Author(s)
      橋場 弦
    • Journal Title

      劇場文化 8

      Pages: 222-235

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2007 Final Research Report Summary 2005 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] Greek dramas and Athenian democracy2005

    • Author(s)
      Yuzuru Hashiba
    • Journal Title

      Dramatic Culture(Proceedings of SPAC) 8

      Pages: 222-235

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2007 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Book] 大学で学ぶ西洋史[古代・中世]2006

    • Author(s)
      服部 良久(共著)
    • Publisher
      ミネルヴァ書房
    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2007 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Book] 大学で学ぶ西洋史[古代・中世](共著)2006

    • Author(s)
      服部良久 (編著)
    • Total Pages
      359
    • Publisher
      ミネルヴァ書房
    • Related Report
      2006 Annual Research Report

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Published: 2005-04-01   Modified: 2016-04-21  

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