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Phyllis ((ギリシア語:Φυλλίς)) is a character in Greek mythology, daughter of a Thracian king (according to some, of Sithon;〔Servius on Virgil's Eclogue 5. 10〕〔Ovid in ''Remedia Amoris'', 605 addresses her by the patronymic Sithonis - if indeed it is a patronymic and not an indication of her belonging to the tribe Sithones〕 most other accounts do not give her father's name at all, but one informs that he was named either Philander, Ciasus, or Thelus〔Scholia on Aeschines, ''On the False Embassy'', 31〕). She married Demophon, King of Athens and son of Theseus, while he stopped in Thrace on his journey home from the Trojan War.〔Pseudo-Apollodorus, ''Bibliotheca'' Epitome of Book 4, 6. 16〕 Demophon, duty bound to Greece, returns home to help his father, leaving Phyllis behind. She sends him away with a coffin with the sacrament of Rhea, asking him to open it only when he has given up hope of returning to her. From here, the story diverges. In one version, Phyllis realizes that he will not return and commits suicide by hanging herself from a tree. Where she is buried, an almond tree grows, which blossoms when Demophon returns to her.〔 In a second version of the story, Demophon opens the caskets and, horrified by what he saw in there, rides off like wild, but his horse stumbles and he accidentally falls on his own sword.〔Pseudo-Apollodorus, ''Bibliotheca'', Epitome of Book 4, 6. 17〕 There is also some confusion regarding which nut tree she became, as hazelnuts were long called ''nux Phyllidos'', and are still sometimes called "filberts" today. In English, this version goes back at least to Gower, who writes in ''Confessio Amantis'' (ca. 1390): This story most notably appears in the second poem of Ovid's ''Heroides'',〔Ovid, ''Heroides'' 2.59–60.〕 a book of epistolary poems from mythological women to their respective men, and it also appears in the ''Aitia'' of Callimachus. The Nine Ways is derived from the story of Phyllis, who is said to have returned nine times to the shores to wait for Demophon's return.〔Hyginus, ''Fabulae'' 59〕 "Phyllis" (or "Phillis") is commonly used as a female given name; variants of it are "Phillida" and "Phyllida".〔Macdonald, A. M., ed. (1972) ''Chambers Twentieth Century Dictionary''; new ed. Edinburgh: W. & R. Chambers; p. 1637〕 ==References== 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「Phyllis」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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