Ripheus
Ripheus (also Rhipeus, Rifeo and Rupheo) was a Trojan hero and the name of a figure from the Aeneid of Virgil. A comrade of Aeneas, he was a Trojan who was killed defending his city against the Greeks. "Ripheus also fell," Virgil writes, "uniquely the most just of all the Trojans, the most faithful preserver of equity; but the gods decided otherwise" (Virgil, Aeneid II, 426–8). Ripheus's righteousness was not rewarded by the gods.
Ripheus in later works
Dante
In his
Here, he provides an interesting foil to Virgil himself—whom Dante places in the first circle of Hell, with the pagans and the unbaptized—even though Virgil is a major character in the Commedia and for much of it remains Dante's guide through Hell and Purgatory. Although Ripheus would historically have been a pagan, in Dante's work he is portrayed as having been given a vision of Jesus over a thousand years before Christ's first coming, and was thus converted to Christianity in the midst of the Trojan War.
Boccaccio
In Boccaccio's Il Filostrato (1333–1339), Ripheus is named as one of the Trojans taken prisoner by the Greeks.[3]
Chaucer
Il Filostrato served as the basis for
João de Barros
João de Barros, who later became one of the main Portuguese historians of the 16th century, while still a young man of the court of King
Namesake
Jovian asteroid
References
- ^ Paradiso, Canto XX:1–72
- ^ Paradiso, Cantos 18 through 20
- ^ Il Filostrato, IV.3.
- ^ Troilus and Cressida, Book IV.50–56
- ^ Troilus and Criseyde, Book IV.53
- ^ Chronica do Emperador Clarimundo, pages 396-404 (16th-century Portuguese)
- ^ "188847 Rhipeus (2006 FT9)". Minor Planet Center. Retrieved 22 August 2019.
- ^ "MPC/MPO/MPS Archive". Minor Planet Center. Retrieved 22 August 2019.