Polyxene

Japanese: Polyxenē(英語表記)Polyxene
Polyxene

…mother of Hector, Paris, and Cassandra. According to Euripides' tragedy Hecuba (performed around 424 BC), after the fall of Troy and the capture of the Greeks, she was forced to give up her daughter Polyxena to be sacrificed at the tomb of Achilles while being taken to Greece. She was later transformed into a female dog and buried at Kynossema (meaning "dog's grave") in the Chersonesus peninsula in Thrace.

*Some of the terminology explanations that mention "Polyxenē" are listed below.

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Japanese:

…ヘクトル,パリス,カッサンドラらの母。エウリピデスの悲劇《ヘカベ》(前424ころ上演)によれば,トロイアが陥落してギリシア軍の捕虜となった彼女は,ギリシアへ引かれて行く途中,アキレウスの墓前で犠牲に供されるべく,娘ポリュクセネPolyxenēをも手放さざるを得なかった。のち雌犬に変じ,トラキア地方のケルソネソス半島のキュノスセマ(〈犬の墓〉の意)に葬られたという。…

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