Hyginus, Gaius Julius

Japanese: ヒュギヌス(英語表記)Hyginus, Gaius Julius
Hyginus, Gaius Julius
[Born] Around 64 B.C.
[Died] 17 years ago
Roman scholar. Born in Spain or Alexandria. A freedman of Emperor Augustus, friend of Ovid. First director of the Palatine Library. His works included studies on agriculture, literature, history, and religion. The only surviving work by him is the Fabulae, a collection of 220 myths, but this was compiled by someone else in the 2nd century.

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Japanese:
[生]前64頃
[没]後17
ローマの学者。スペインあるいはアレクサンドリアの生まれ。アウグスツス帝の解放奴隷,オウィディウスの友人。パラチヌス図書館の初代館長。農学,文学,歴史,宗教に関する研究書があった。 220の神話を集めた『神話』 Fabulaeが彼の著作として現存するが,これは2世紀の別人の編纂になるもの。

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