Virbius

Japanese: Virbius
Virbius

...The story is best known from Euripides' tragedy Hippolytus (performed in 428 BCE, in which the author won the first prize), as well as from the tragedy Phaedra by Seneca and, more recently, from the French dramatist Racine's Phèdre. Another version says that Hippolytus was revived by the god of medicine Asclepius at the request of Artemis, and Ovid and other Roman poets say that he was then carried by Diana (the Roman equivalent of Artemis) to the sacred grove of Aricia in Latium, where he served her under the name Virbius (the twice-lived). The Hippolytus legend probably originated in Troezen, where he had a temple and a yearly sacrifice by a tenured priest. ...

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

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Japanese:

…この物語はエウリピデスの悲劇《ヒッポリュトス》(前428年に上演され,作者は優勝をかちえた)でもっともよく知られるほか,哲人セネカの悲劇《ファエドラ》,近代ではフランスの劇作家ラシーヌの《フェードル》にも扱われた。 また別の伝承では,ヒッポリュトスはアルテミスの願いにより医神アスクレピオスの手で蘇生させられたといわれ,これをうけたオウィディウスその他のローマ詩人は,彼はその後ディアナ(アルテミスにあたるローマ神話の女神)によってラティウム地方のアリキアの聖林に運ばれ,ウィルビウスVirbius(2度生きる者)の名のもとに女神に仕えたと語っている。ヒッポリュトス伝説発祥の地はおそらくトロイゼンであったと考えられているが,同地には彼の神殿があり,毎年,終身職の神官が犠牲を捧げた。…

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