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Nakatani Saiichiro

ナカタニ サイイチロウ | Nakatani Saiichiro
Affiliation and department:
Job title: Professor
Research field  (3): Literature - European ,  Literature - General ,  Literature - British/English-languag
Research keywords  (4): Greek and Latin Classics ,  Comparative Literature ,  Reception History ,  Bibliography
Research theme for competitive and other funds  (5):
  • 2021 - 2025 Joint International and Interdisciplinary Studies on the Reception of Classical Antiquity in Japan
  • 2014 - 2017 Studies in Plutarch's Works: A General Reappraisal with Emphasis on Their Cultural and Intellectual Background
  • 2011 - 2015 Cultural History of Longus' Daphnis & Chloe
  • Reception History of Ancient Greek and Roman Novel in Europe and Japan
  • Narrative techniques of Ancient Greek and Roman Novel
Papers (8):
  • 'Synkritical Description of Characters in Plutarch's Parallel Lives'. Journal of Classical Studies. 2016. LXIV. 64. 116-126
  • 'Daphnis et Chloé, Collaboration between Corancez & Rousseau'. Jinmon (Kagoshima Prefectural College). 2015. 39. 41-52
  • 'Daphnis & Chloe, translated by Gen'ichi Yanome'. Jinmon (Kagoshima Prefectural College). 2014. 38. 9-24
  • 'Three Variants of Pierre Laujon's Libretto of Daphnis et Chloé'. The Annual Research Report (Kagoshima Prefectural College). 2013. 45. 53-69
  • Nakatani Saiichiro. 'When Achilles Tatius Flourished'. Journal of Classical Studies. 2008. LVI. 89-101
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MISC (6):
  • Column: 'Welsh Culture in Dream Horse'. Cinema brochure for "Dream Horse" (Shochiku). 2023. 14
  • Book Review: Hitoshi Yoshikawa, Forming and reforming “Aesop’s fables”: Tradition, Translation and Reception, from Ancient Greece to the late 19th-century Japan (Chisenshokan, Tokyo, 2020). Journal of Classical Studies. 2022. LXIX. 138-140
  • 11. Plutarch's Parallel Lives, 35. Seneca's Tragedies, 55. Apicius, 57. Juvenal. Exhibition Catalogue: Incunabula Collection of Keio University Library. 2018
  • Column: 'Lesbos of Longus, Longus of Lesbos'. Monthly Bulletin of Collegium Mediterranistarum. 2016. 393. 5
  • Column: 'Greek Romance and Mediterranean World'. Monthly Bulletin of Collegium Mediterranistarum. 2012. 348. 4
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Books (6):
  • The World of Daphnis & Chloe: An Ancient Greek Romance (in Japanese)
    Keio University Press 2022
  • Some Organic Readings in Narrative, Ancient and Modern
    Barkhuis Publishing & Groningen University Library 2019
  • Challenges of Parallel Lives: New Image of Plutarch
    Kyoto University Press 2019
  • Cultural Crossroads in the Ancient Novel
    De Gruyter 2018
  • Towards the Future of Greek and Latin Classics: Memorial essays presented to Prof. Kiichiro Itsumi, on his retirement in 2010
    Chisen-shokan 2010
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Lectures and oral presentations  (21):
  • ‘135 Years of Japanese Reception of Daphnis & Chloe’
    (KYKNOS Seminar, Swansea University, UK 2023)
  • ‘The Reception of Daphnis & Chloe in Modern Japan’
    (Invited talk at Université d’Orléans, France 2022)
  • ‘The Reception of Longus’ Daphnis & Chloe in Modern Europe’
    (Guest lecture II at Universiteit Gent, België 2022)
  • ‘The Reception of Achilles Tatius’ Leucippe & Clitophon and Heliodorus’ Aethiopica in Early Modern Europe’
    (Guest lecture I at Universiteit Gent, België 2022)
  • 'One hundred years of Japanese translations of Daphnis & Chloe'
    (International Conference on the Ancient Novel VI, Thagaste Augustijnenklooster, Gent, België 2022)
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Education (6):
  • 2001 - 2005 University of Wales Swansea Department of Classics, Ancient History and Egyptology PhD Course
  • 2000 - 2001 University of Cambridge Faculty of Classics MPhil Course
  • 1998 - 2000 Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, University of Tokyo Department of European and American Studies (Greek and Latin Classics) PhD Course (incomplete)
  • 1996 - 1998 Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, University of Tokyo Department of European and American Studies (Greek and Latin Classics) MLitt Course
  • 1993 - 1996 University of Tokyo Faculty of Letters Language and Culture (Greek and Latin Classics)
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Professional career (4):
  • PhD (University of Wales)
  • MPhil (University of Cambridge)
  • MLitt (University of Tokyo)
  • BLitt (University of Tokyo)
Work history (14):
  • 2022/08 - 現在 Universiteit Gent Visiting Scholar
  • 2021/04 - 現在 Keio University Faculty of Letters Professor
  • 2016/09 - 2022/03 Yokohama City University Faculty of International Liberal Arts Part-time Lecturer
  • 2015/04 - 2021/03 Keio University Faculty of Letters Associate Professor
  • 2018/09 - 2019/07 University of Tokyo College of Arts and Sciences Part-time Lecturer
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Committee career (2):
  • 2020/04 - 現在 Classical Society of Japan Editorial Committee, JASCA (Japan Studies in Classical Antiquity)
  • 2019 - 2022 International Conference on the Ancient Novel VI (Ghent, Belgium, 2022) International Advisory Committee
Association Membership(s) (6):
Philologica ,  Classical Association (UK) ,  Collegium Mediterranistarum ,  Classical Society of Japan ,  Society for Classical Studies (US) ,  The Shakespeare Society of Japan
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