Research on Crises in Greek and Latin Literature

希腊和拉丁文学涵盖了一千多年，每一个时期都有一些作家对他们那个时代的危机有着非常敏锐的感觉。本研究的五位受试者研究了不同时期代表性作家的不同危机感。Nakatsukasa对Hesiodic学术进行了回顾，并提出了一种新的视角来解读《作品与日子》中所叙述的五个种族的神话。内山考虑了希腊人心灵的特殊性质，这导致了哲学和科学的产生，从考察伏尔索格拉底人对天象的态度开始，阿里斯托芬的喜剧是反映他的时代的最好的镜子。久保田拿起公元前415年雅典西西里安远征惨败后创作的《鸟》，思考这是一种政治信息的呈现还是对现实的戏剧性逃避。在奥古斯都平息内乱并建立帝国政府后，拉丁文学表现出前所未有的历史思考。许多作家效仿希腊先驱，试图写出自己的历史。高桥研究了罗马史学中的西塞罗理论和利维的实践。米米卡瓦考虑了塔西图斯如何警告自己，并承诺自己将面临罗马帝国的命运。

Greek and Latin literature covers over a thousand years, every period of which has some authors who have very keen senses to the crisis of their ages. Five participants in this research have studied a variety of senses of crisis in some representative authors of each period.Nakatsukasa has retrospected the Hesiodic scholarship and suggested a new viewpoint to interprete the Myth of Five Races narrated in the "Works and Days". Uchiyama has considered the special characters of the Greek mind which gave rise to philosophy and science, starting with the examination of attitudes of the Vorsokratikers toward heavenly phenomena Comedies of Aristophanes are the best mirror to reflect his age. Kubota picked up the "Birds", which was produced in 415 B.C.after the disastrous failure of the Cicilian expedition of Athens, and considered whether it was a presentation of political messages or a theatrical escape from reality.After Augustus had settled civil strifes and started the imperial government, the Latin literature showed an unprecedented raise of the historical thinking. Many writers emulated the Greek forerunners and tried to write their own histories. Takahashi has investigated the theory of Cicero and the practice of Livy in the Roman historiography. Minamikawa has considered how Tacitus warned and committed himself in the fate of Roman empire.