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:''For the skipper butterfly genus, see ''Gorgythion (butterfly). In Greek mythology, Gorgythion (Greek: Γοργυθίων, gen.: Γοργυθίωνος) was one of the sons of King Priam of Troy at the time of the Trojan War and appears as a minor character in Homer's ''Iliad''. His mother was Castianeira of Aisyme.〔"There was an historical town of Oisyme, lying at the foot of Pangaios, and this is commonly identified with the Homeric Aisyme. This may be right; there is at least no other candidate for the position," Walter Leaf noted, with the reservation— because of the later presence in the Troad of the Gergythes that Herodotus regarded as ancient inhabitants— that Aisyme might have been an otherwise unnoted town in the environs of Troy. (Leaf, ''Troy: A Study in Homeric Geography'' 1912:274). Of Oisyme Leaf noted Thucydides, iv.107, and afterwards called Imathia, from Stephanus Byzantinicus. Oisyme has no entry in Richard Stillwell, ''et al.,'' eds. ''The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites.'' (Princeton University Press) 1976.〕 ==Parentage== Near the end of the ''Iliad'', Priam himself tells Achilles: "I begat the bravest sons in wide Troy, of whom I say that none are left. Fifty there were to me, when the sons of the Greeks arrived; nineteen indeed from one womb, but the others women bore to me in my palaces. And of the greater number fierce Mars indeed has relaxed the knees under them..."〔Homer, ''Iliad'' 24.495-497 (Buckley's translation)〕 Gorgythion is referred to at his death as "...the brave son of Priam".〔 Of Gorgythion's mother Castianeira, Homer says (in Samuel Butler's translation) "His mother, fair Castianeira, lovely as a goddess, had been married from Aesyme."〔Samuel Butler, (Iliad ) (trans.) online at gutenberg.org (Accessed: 22 January 2008)〕 The ''Bibliotheca'' says that Priam had nine sons and four daughters by Hecuba (the sons being Hector, Paris, Deiphobus, Helenus, Pammon, Polites, Antiphus, Hipponous, Polydorus, and the daughters Creusa, Laodice, Polyxena, and the prophetess Cassandra), and he names thirty-eight sons by other women, including Troilus, Hippothous, Kebriones, and Gorgythion.〔''Bibliotheca'' 3.12.5.〕 In the ''Fabulae'' of Gaius Julius Hyginus, fable 90 consists wholly of a list of "Sons and daughters of Priam to the number of fifty-five", in which Gorgythion is included.〔Hyginus, (Fables 50 - 99, translated by Mary Grant )〕 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「Gorgythion」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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