Oinone - Oinone

…At his birth, he was abandoned in Mount Ida because of a prophecy that he would destroy the country in the future, but he was picked up by a shepherd and raised, and was recognized as a prince when he grew up. Later, when Zeus ordered him to judge the dispute between the three goddesses Hera, Athena, and Aphrodite for the honor of the most beautiful goddess, he declared the victory to Aphrodite, who had promised to marry the most beautiful woman in the world, and abandoned his wife, the nymph Oinone, and, under the protection of the goddess, kidnapped Helen, the wife of King Menelaus of Sparta. In the Trojan War that was caused by this, he fought Menelaus in a single combat and shot Achilles, the strongest hero on the Greek side, but was shot by Philoctetes with a poisoned arrow from Heracles, and returned to Oenone, who knew the cure, but she refused to treat him and he died. …

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…誕生時，この子は将来，国を滅ぼすだろうとの予言があったため，イダ山中に捨てられたが，羊飼いに拾われて育ち，成人後，王子として認知された。のち，最も美しい女神の誉れをめぐるヘラ，アテナ，アフロディテ3女神の争いの審判をゼウスに命じられたとき，世界一の美女との結婚を約束したアフロディテに勝利を宣した彼は，それまで妻としていたニンフのオイノネOinōnēを見捨て，女神の加護のもとにスパルタ王メネラオスの后ヘレネを誘拐した。これが原因となって起こったトロイア戦争では，彼はメネラオスと一騎打ちをしたほか，ギリシア方最強の英雄アキレウスを射殺したが，フィロクテテスにヘラクレスの毒矢を射あてられ，治療法を知るオイノネのもとに帰ったものの，彼女に治療を拒まれてそのまま落命したという。…

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