Apollo Palatinus - Apollo Palatinus

Japanese: アポロ・パラティヌス - あぽろぱらてぃぬす
Apollo Palatinus - Apollo Palatinus

…The Pythian Games, one of the four great Greek games, were held every four years at Delphi, and winners in the various artistic and athletic contests were awarded crowns made of laurel leaves (the sacred tree of Apollo). The god entered Italy through Etruscan and southern Greek colonies, and in the Roman Republic he was worshipped primarily as a god of healing and prophecy, but after Emperor Augustus dedicated a temple to him on the Palatine Hill in 28 BC, Apollo Palatine became a great god comparable to Jupiter, the best and greatest. In art, he has always been depicted as an ideal youth, and famous sculptures include the statue of Apollo on the west pediment of the Temple of Zeus at Olympia (c. 460 BC) and the Belvedere Apollo in the Vatican Museums (a copy of a Hellenistic work). …

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

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Japanese:

…デルフォイではまたギリシア四大競技の一つに数えられるピュティア祭競技が4年ごとに催され,各種の芸文および運動競技の勝利者には,月桂樹(アポロンの聖木)の枝葉でつくった冠が与えられた。この神はイタリアへはエトルリアおよび南部のギリシア植民市を通じて入り,共和政時代のローマではおもに癒しと予言の神としてあがめられたが,前28年,アウグストゥス帝がパラティヌス丘に神殿を奉献して以来,アポロ・パラティヌスは〈最善最大のユピテル〉にも匹敵する大神となった。美術ではつねに理想的な青年として表現され,有名な彫刻にオリュンピアのゼウス神殿西破風のアポロン像(前460ころ),バチカン宮美術館蔵の《ベルベデーレのアポロン》(ヘレニズム期の作品の模刻)などがある。…

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