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In Greek as well as Roman mythology, Hygieia (also Hygiea or Hygeia; or , (ラテン語:Hygēa) or ラテン語:Hygīa), was the daughter of the god of medicine, Asclepius, and Epione. She was the goddess/personification of health ((ギリシア語:ὑγίεια) - ''hugieia''〔(ὑγίεια ), Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, ''A Greek-English Lexicon'', on Perseus〕), cleanliness and hygiene. Hygieia and her five sisters each performed a facet of Apollo's art: Hygieia ("Hygiene" the goddess/personification of health, cleanliness, and sanitation), Panacea (the goddess of Universal remedy), Iaso (the goddess of recuperation from illness), Aceso (the goddess of the healing process), and Aglæa/Ægle (the goddess of beauty, splendor, glory, magnificence, and adornment). Hygieia also played an important part in her father's cult. While her father was more directly associated with healing, she was associated with the prevention of sickness and the continuation of good health. Her name is the source of the word "hygiene". She was imported by the Romans as the goddess Valetudo, the goddess of personal health, but in time she started to be increasingly identified with the ancient Italian goddess of social welfare, Salus. ==History== At Athens, Hygieia was the subject of a local cult since at least the 7th century BC. "Athena Hygieia" was one of the cult titles given to Athena, as Plutarch recounts of the building of the Parthenon (447-432 BC): However, the cult of Hygieia as an independent goddess did not begin to spread out until the Delphic oracle recognized her, and after the devastating Plague of Athens (430-427 BC) and in Rome in 293 BC. In the 2nd century AD, Pausanias noted the statues both of Hygieia and of Athena Hygieia near the entrance to the Acropolis of Athens.〔Pausanias, I.23.4; the statement in Pliny's Natural History (xxxiv.80) ''Pyrrhus fecit Hygiam et Minervam'' has been applied to these statues: see H. B. Walters, "Athena Hygieia" ''The Journal of Hellenic Studies'' 19 (1899:165-168) p. 167.〕 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「Hygieia」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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