紀要論文

紀要論文

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フィロカリア. 2025, 42, p. 19-33

大阪大学大学院人文学研究科　芸術学専攻

日本語

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2025-03-27

The aim of this essay is to demonstrate the relationship of two famous Symposia and the function of the characters like jesters. In Plato’s and Xenophon’s Symposia, some jesters come on the scene and make the participants of the banquets laugh on several occasions. I believe that the jesters play a significant role in both Symposia, particularly Socrates in Xenophon’s Symposium and Alcibiades in Plato’s Symposium. The two characters do not have disposition such as a jester essential, but they are linked to the representation of laughter in both Symposia. In Xenophon’s Symposium, the main character Socrates makes the guests laugh several times, but he has no intention of creating laugh situations. Although Socrates himself is very serious, his seriousness is just a trigger for laughter. In Plato’s Symposium, Alcibiades also does not want to be an object of laughter, and he repeatedly ensures that he will speak for truth and not for laughing. Despite his declarative statement, all the guests laughed at his way of expressing himself at the end of his speech. Alcibiades, like Socrates in Xenophon’s Symposium, has a jester’s role in spite of his serious mind. As seen above, Socrates and Alcibiades are, so to speak, ‘serious jesters’ in both Symposia. Their seriousness not only makes others laugh, but also indicates some truth. I am convinced that the complex relationship between laughter (γέλως) and seriousness (σπουδή) is the crucial element in comprehending the importance of jesters in ancient Symposium.

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「シュンポシオン」におけるγέλωςとσπουδή : プラトン『饗宴』とクセノポン『酒宴』における「道化」の描写を通じて

里中, 俊介

大阪大学大学院人文学研究科　芸術学専攻

日本語

2025-03-27

フィロカリア

42

19

33

https://hdl.handle.net/11094/101325