...In this case, the heroes were none other than the kings and the warriors around them who were active in Homer's epics. The theories of the heroic age by 18th-century Italian Vico and 19th-century German Hegel also assumed that the society in which Homer's heroes were active and their extraordinary world were real historical periods. Moreover, the theories of the heroic age by British historians such as H. M. Chadwick in his Heroic Age (1912) and those by subsequent historians shared the commonality of extracting the characteristics of the heroic age from Homer's epics and regarding it as an ideal type that could be compared to the conditions on the eve of the formation of nations in Sumer, Israel, India, the Germanic countries, and Japan. *Some of the terminology used in reference to the "Heroic Age Theory" is listed below. Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information |
…この場合,英雄とはホメロスの叙事詩の中で活動する王たちとそのまわりの戦士たちにほかならなかった。18世紀のイタリアのビーコ,19世紀のドイツのヘーゲルなどの英雄時代論も,ホメロスの英雄たちの活動する社会とその非日常的世界とを,歴史上実在した時代と仮定することによって設定された時代であった。それだけでなく,イギリスのチャドウィックH.M.Chadwickの《英雄時代》(1912)およびそれ以後の歴史家による英雄時代論は,英雄時代の特徴をホメロスの叙事詩からひき出し,それを理念型として,シュメールやイスラエルやインドやゲルマンや日本の国家形成前夜の状態をそれに対比しうるものとみなすという点で共通していた。… ※「英雄時代論」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。 出典|株式会社平凡社世界大百科事典 第2版について | 情報 |
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