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>>341 【Dryden の詩に出てくる Chloris の神話上の由来】
John Dryden の詩に出てきたこの Chloris という女性の名前は、神話に出てくる妖精の
名前であり、その神話上の物語もきわめて詩的で素晴らしい。Wikipedia には、次のように
書いてある。
★Chloris was a Nymph★ associated with spring, flowers and new growth,
believed to have dwelt in the Elysian Fields. Roman authors equated
her with the goddess ■Flora, suggesting that the initial sound of her
name may have been altered by Latin speakers (a popular etymology).
Myths had it that she was abducted by (and later married) ●Zephyrus,
the god of the west wind (which, as Ovid himself points out, was
a parallel to the story of his brother Boreas and Oreithyia).
She was also thought to have been responsible for 【the transformations
of Adonis, Attis, Crocus, Hyacinthus and Narcissus into flowers】.
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