Machaon (English spelling)

Japanese: Machaōn(英語表記)Machaon
Machaon (English spelling)

During the Trojan War, Philoctetes led seven warships to the enemy's territory, but on the way he was bitten on the foot by a poisonous snake on the island of Tenedos, and the wound became infected and emitted a terrible stench, so he was left alone on the island of Lemnos. However, ten years later, the Greek army heard from the enemy prophet Helenus, who had been captured, that Troy was destined to be lost only by the bow of Heracles, so they sent Odysseus and Diomedes (or Neoptolemus, the surviving son of Achilles) to the island of Lemnos. When Philoctetes arrived at Troy accompanied by the two, he was first healed by the famous physician Machaon, and then shot dead the enemy general Paris, who had started the war. The story was dramatized by the three great tragic poets, Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, but only Sophocles' Philoctetes (performed in 409 BC) survives.

*Some of the terminology that mentions "Machaōn" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…トロイア戦争の際,彼は7隻の軍船を率いて敵地に向かったが,途中,テネドス島で毒蛇に足をかまれ,その傷が化膿してひどい悪臭を放つに至ったため,ひとりレムノス島に置き去りにされた。しかし10年後,捕虜となった敵の予言者ヘレノスHelenosから,トロイアはヘラクレスの弓なくしては陥落しない定めにあると聞き及んだギリシア軍は,オデュッセウスとディオメデス(またはアキレウスの遺子ネオプトレモス)をレムノス島に派遣,二人に伴われてトロイアに着いたフィロクテテスは,まず名医マカオンMachaōnに傷をいやされたあと,戦争の原因をつくった敵将パリスを射殺したという。この話はアイスキュロス,ソフォクレス,エウリピデスの三大悲劇詩人によって劇化されたが,ソフォクレスの《フィロクテテス》(前409上演)のみが現存している。…

※「Machaōn」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。

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