Transmission and Acceptance of Classics in Europe and Japan

在今年的调查过程中，人们对希腊和拉丁经典有了新的认识：直到上个世纪上半叶，它一直被理想化，但现在它是从相对的、比较的角度来考虑的。因此，研究的重点转向了欧洲历史上使经典得以传播和接受的价值观。因此，我们需要从新的性别视角来解读经典文本。这样的阅读将使我们对经典作为西方思想背景的重要性有一个新的认识。今年研究的第一个成果是对希腊神话的简单解释，这些解释附在8卷系列书籍的末尾，供读者阅读。这部作品促进了希腊罗马神话和一般经典的普及。第二个成果是从性别角度分析亚里士多德《政治学》的论文。对文本的研究表明，他对女性的观念高度基于古希腊文学中经常出现的一种被称为厌女症的传统表征。公元前5、4世纪，亚里士多德在以男性为中心的雅典社会中，充分利用二分法和支配-从属关系，建立了系统的理论来证明传统的合理性。今年的分析对象仅限于政治，但以后将扩展到他关于人体和生殖的其他作品。

This year in the process of the investigation, Greek and Latin classics came to be seen in a new light : it had been idealized till the first half of the last century but now it is considered in a relative, comparative perspective. Accordingly the emphasis of the research has shifted to the sense of values that enabled transmission and acceptance of the classics in the European history. As a result, it is needed to read classical texts from a new point of view of gender. This kind of reading will give a new understanding of the importance of the classics as a background in the western thoughts.The first fruit of this year's research is the plain explanations of Greek myths which were attached to each end of the books of 8-volume series for the reading public. The work has promoted popularization of both Greco-Roman myths and the classics in general.A second fruit is a paper analyzing Aristotle's Politics from a gender point of view. The examination of the text revealed that his conception of women was highly based on a traditional representation called misogyny that appeared frequently in the ancient Greek literature. It was Aristotle who established a systematic theory justifying the tradition by making good use of dichotomy and domination-subordination relationship in a male-centered society of Athens in the fifth and fourth century BC.The object of the analysis of this year was confined to Politics, but hereafter it will be expanded to his other writings about human body and reproduction.