Arges - Arges

...When Odysseus and his men arrived on the island where they lived (Sicily?), they got lost in the cave of a Cyclops named Polyphemos, and his men were eaten one by one. Odysseus's trick to escape by blinding the giant is famous. Meanwhile, according to Hesiod's Theogony, they were the three sons of the sky god Uranus and the earth goddess Gaia, Brontēs (Thunder), Steropēs (Lightning), and Arges (Flash), and were imprisoned underground by their father, but were later released by Zeus, and became allies of the Zeus brothers who fought against Cronus's group, contributing to their victory. Later Greeks considered them to be craftsmen of the god of blacksmithing, Hephaestus, and believed that the smoke from the volcano Etna was rising from their workshops. ...

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…彼らの住む島(シチリア島？)に着いたオデュッセウスとその部下がポリュフェモスPolyphēmosという名のキュクロプスの洞穴に迷いこみ，部下がつぎつぎと食われていったとき，オデュッセウスの計略で巨人の眼をつぶして逃れた話は有名。一方，ヘシオドスの《神統記》によれば，彼らは天空神ウラノスと大地女神ガイアの3人の息子ブロンテスBrontēs(雷鳴)，ステロペスSteropēs(電光)，アルゲスArgēs(閃光)とされ，父の手で地底に幽閉されたが，のちゼウスに解放され，クロノス一派と矛を交えたゼウス兄弟の味方となってその勝利に貢献したという。後代のギリシア人は彼らを鍛冶の神ヘファイストスの職人と考え，エトナ火山の噴煙は彼らの仕事場からのぼる煙と信じた。…

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