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In Greek mythology, Campe or Kampê ((ギリシア語:Κάμπη) "crooked"; confer καμπή "a twist, a bend") is the name of a fearsome chthonic drakaina (she-dragon). Called the ''Nymph of Tartarus'' (Ταρταρία νύμφη), Campe was given the task of guarding the Hekatonkheires and the Cyclopes in Tartarus, by Cronus, leader of the Titans. She was killed by the eldest gods led by Zeus when he freed the Cyclopes to help him in the battle with the Titans.〔Pseudo-Apollodorus, ''Bibliotheke'' 1.2.1.〕 ==Mythology== Campe was a half-dragon with a beautiful woman's head and upper body and a scorpion-like tail. Nonnus (''Dionysiaca'' 18.23–264) gives the most elaborated description of her.〔(Theoi.com: Kampe, including translated section from ''Dionysiaca'' )〕 Joseph Eddy Fontenrose suggests that, for Nonnus, Campe is a Greek refiguring of Tiamat and that "she is Echidna under another name, as Nonnos indicates, calling her Echidnaean Enyo, identifying her snaky legs with Echidna's", and "a female counterpart of his Typhon".〔Fontenrose, ''Python: A Study of Delphic Myth and Its Origins'' 1974:243.〕 Campe was set by Cronus to guard the Hecatonchires and Cyclopes in Tartarus after he did not release them from their imprisonment by Uranus. In his lexicon, Hesychius of Alexandria (K.614) noted that the poet Epicharmos had called Campe a ''kētos'', or sea-monster.〔Max Mayer ''Die Giganten und Titanen'' 1887:232–34.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Campe」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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