Oedipus in Egypt

Japanese: 《エジプトのオイディプス》 - えじぷとのおいでぃぷす
Oedipus in Egypt

… One of Kircher's most ambitious attempts was the deciphering of Egyptian hieroglyphs. Having learned of hieroglyphs in 1628 through a collection of drawings of Egyptian obelisks, he began his work in 1636 using Coptic as a clue, and published the results of his work as Oedipus in Egypt (1652-54). However, his method of deciphering the hieroglyphs was too heavily based on the mystical linguistic analysis of Kabbalah, and is now considered a misinterpretation, but the direction of his ideas was correct. …

*Some of the terminology used in "Oedipus of Egypt" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

… キルヒャーの最も壮大な試みの一つはエジプト聖刻文字(ヒエログリフ)の解読であった。28年にエジプトのオベリスクを写生した画集を通じて聖刻文字を知った彼は,36年にコプト語を手がかりに解読に着手,その成果を《エジプトのオイディプス》(1652‐54)として公表した。しかし解読法がカバラの神秘的な言語分析法に拠りすぎていたため今日では誤読とされているが,着想の方向としては正しかった。…

※「《エジプトのオイディプス》」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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