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== Trivia == | == Trivia == | ||
* Hippolytus is based on a character of the same name in Greek mythos who had been unjustly slain by Poseidon at the behest of his son, Theseus, due to his second wife, Phaedra, taking her own life and had accused Hippolytus of accosting her. Unbeknownst to them, Aphrodite had cursed Phaedra with obsession towards her stepson, Hippolytus, who she tried to coerce into having a relationship with her; when he reacted with revulsion and horror to her advances, she took her own life and planned to bring Hippolytus down with her. It was the Artemis who comforted the dying Hippolytus and set things right with Poseidon and Theseus. | |||
** In some stories, Hippolytus is often associated with a minor Roman forest god named Virbius, who is often thought to be the name he assumed when he moved to Italy after being revived by Asclepius and built a shrine for Diana (Artemis). | |||
** Hippolytus was a devout follower of the virgin goddess Artemis, he even made a vow of chastity to her, which allowed her to look at him with favor. With Artermis's, a goddess of vegetation, favor and being a minor forest god himself, he has strong affinity for plants and has some dominion over them. | |||
** Daisy-like flowers are scattered throughout his higher rarity art, the flower itself being symbols of chastity and purity; a reference to how Hippolytus in Greek myths would offer a crown of flowers in honor Artemis under her statue after his hunts; the flowers plucked from a virginal (untouched) meadow. | |||
* Hippolytus's charge skill "ακήρατος λειμων" means "Pristine Meadow". | |||
* One of his skills, Auriga of Purity, references Auriga, a constellation known as the Charioteer. In one of the versions of Hippolytus's story, Asclepius resurrected him in the form of the constellation. | |||
* His stepfather, Theseus, had another wife named Ariadne, who is the original holder of Daisuke's (Taurus Mask) Sacred Artifact. | |||
** Both his and Daisuke's artifacts work in similar ways; both are in the shape of rings, one is a flower crown and the other is in the form of a wrestling ring, and both prevent outside interference from disrupting anything inside. | |||
== Notes == | == Notes == | ||