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Aidos (Ancient Greek: ) was the Greek goddess of shame, modesty, and humility. Aidos, as a quality, was that feeling of reverence or shame which restrains men from wrong. It also encompassed the emotion that a rich person might feel in the presence of the impoverished, that wealth was more a matter of luck than merit. She was the last goddess to leave the earth after the Golden Age. She was a close companion of the goddess of vengeance Nemesis.〔Hesiod, ''Works and Days'', 170 ff〕 One source calls her daughter of Prometheus.〔Pindar, Olympian Ode 7. 44 ff〕 Mythologically, she is often considered to be more of a personification than a physical deity. There are references to her in various early Greek plays, such as ''Prometheus Bound'' by Aeschylus, ''Iphigenia at Aulis'' by Euripides, and ''Oedipus Rex'' by Sophocles. There were altars to Aidos in Athens〔Pausanias, ''Description of Greece'', 1. 17. 1〕 and in Lacedaemon.〔Pausanias, ''Description of Greece'', 3. 20. 10 - 11〕 Some sources mention Aeschyne as a personification of shame and reverence;〔Aeschylus, ''Seven Against Thebes'' 409 ff〕〔Aesop, ''Fables'' 528〕 this figure appears to be equivalent to Aidos. ==Notes== 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「Aidos」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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