Alcestis - Alcestis

Japanese: 《アルケスティス》 - あるけすてぃす
Alcestis - Alcestis

…In Homer, he is the brother of Hypnos (sleep), and in Hesiod, he is the son of Nyx (night), but in both cases he remains an abstract being. His personal deity can be found in Euripides' tragedy Alcestis, in which the hero Hercules fights with Thanatos and saves Alcestis, and in a story by Phrynicus, a writer from the 5th century BCE, in which Zeus, enraged after being exposed by Sisyphus as the kidnapper of the daughter of the river god Asopus, sends Thanatos to Sisyphus, but the cunning Sisyphus tricks and ties up Thanatos, so that there are no more deaths for some time until the war god Ares releases him. [Tomohiro Mizutani] …

*Some of the terminology references "Alcestis" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…ホメロスではヒュプノス(〈眠り〉)の兄弟,ヘシオドスではニュクス(〈夜〉)の子とされるが,いずれも抽象的な存在にとどまる。人格神としての彼は,英雄ヘラクレスがタナトスと格闘してアルケスティスを救うエウリピデスの悲劇《アルケスティス》や,シシュフォスにより河神アソポスの娘の誘拐犯人と暴露されて怒ったゼウスが,シシュフォスのもとへタナトスを遣わしたところ,狡猾なシシュフォスはタナトスをだまして縛り上げたため,軍神アレスがそのいましめを解くまで,しばらく死者が出なかったという前5世紀の作家フリュニコスの伝える話などに見いだされる。【水谷 智洋】。…

※「《アルケスティス》」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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