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ERYMANTHOS (Mountain) ACHAIA
There is also a legend that Heracles at the command of Eurystheus hunted by the side of the Erymanthus a boar that surpassed all others in size and in strength. The people of Cumae among the Opici say that the boar's tusks dedicated in their sanctuary of Apollo are those of the Erymanthian boar, but the saying is altogether improbable.
For the fourth labor, Eurystheus ordered Hercules to bring him the
Erymanthian boar alive. Now, a boar is a huge, wild pig with a bad temper, and
tusks growing out of its mouth.
This one was called the Erymanthian boar, because it lived on a mountain
called Erymanthus. Every day the boar would come crashing down from his lair on
the mountain, attacking men and animals all over the countryside, gouging them
with its tusks, and destroying everything in its path...
...It wasn't too hard for Hercules to find the boar. He could hear
the beast snorting and stomping as it rooted around for something to eat. Hercules
chased the boar round and round the mountain, shouting as loud as he could. The
boar, frightened and out of breath, hid in a thicket. Hercules poked his spear
into the thicket and drove the exhausted animal into a deep patch of snow.
Then he trapped the boar in a net, and carried it all the way to Mycenae.
Eurystheus, again amazed and frightened by the hero's powers, hid in his partly
buried bronze jar.
This extract is cited July 2004 from Perseus Project URL bellow, which contains interesting hyperlinks
Heracles. 4. The Erymanthian boar. This animal, which Heracles was ordered to bring alive, had descended from mount Erymanthus (according to others, from mount Lampe,) into Psophis. IIeracles chased him through the deep snow, and having thus worn him out, he caught him in a net, and carried him to Mycenae. (Apollod. ii. 5.4; Diod. iv. 12.) Other traditions place the hunt of the Erymanthian boar in Thessaly, and some even in Phrygia. (Eurip. Herc. Fur. 368; Hygin. Fab. 30.) It must be observed that this and subsequent labours of Heracles are connected with other subordinate ones, called Parerga, and the first of these parerga is the fight of Heracles with the Centaurs ; for it is said that in his pursuit of the boar he came to the centaur Pholus, who had received from Dionysus a cask of excellent wine. Heracles opened it, contrary to the wish of his host, and the delicious fragrance attracted the other centaurs, who besieged the grotto of Pholus. Heracles drove them away: they fled to the house of Cheiron, and Heracles, eager in his pursuit, wounded Cheiron, his old friend. Heracles was deeply grieved, and tried to save Cheiron; but in vain, for the wound was fatal. As, however, Cheiron was immortal, and could not die, he prayed to Zeus to take away his immortality, and give it to Prometheus. Thus Cheiron was delivered of his burning pain, and died. Pholus, too, was wounded by one of the arrows, which by accident fell on his foot and killed him. This fight with the centaurs gave rise to the establishment of mysteries, by which Demeter intended to purify the hero from the blood he had shed against his own will. (Apollod. ii. 5.4; Diod. iv. 14; Eurip. Herc. Fur. 364, &c.; Theocrit. vii. 150; Apollon. Rhod. i. 127; Paus. viii. 24.2; Ov. Met. ix. 192.)
This text is from: A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, 1873 (ed. William Smith). Cited Nov 2005 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
On his way to hunt the Erymanthian boar, Hercules stopped to visit
his friend Pholus, who was a centaur and lived in a cave near Mount Erymanthus.
Everyone knows that centaur is a human from his head to his waist, and a horse
for the rest of his body and his legs. Hercules was hungry and thirsty, so the
kindly centaur cooked Hercules some meat in the fireplace, while he himself ate
his meat raw.
When Hercules asked for wine, Pholus said that he was afraid to open
the wine jar, because it belonged to all the centaurs in common. But Hercules
said not to worry, and opened it himself.
Soon afterwards, the rest of the centaurs smelled the wine and came
to Pholus's cave. They were angry that someone was drinking all of their wine.
The first two who dared to enter were armed with rocks and fir trees.
Hercules grabbed burning sticks from the fireplace and threw them
at the centaurs, then went after them with his club.
He shot arrows at the rest of them and chased after them for about
twenty miles. The rest of the centaurs fled in different directions. One of the
centaurs, Chiron, received a wound that no amount of medicine would heal...but
what happened to Chiron is another story.
While Hercules was gone, Pholus pulled an arrow from the body of one
of the dead centaurs. He wondered that so little a thing could kill such a big
creature. Suddenly, the arrow slipped from his hand. It fell onto his foot and
killed him on the spot. So when Hercules returned, he found Pholus dead. He buried
his centaur friend, and proceeded to hunt the boar.
This extract is cited July 2004 from Perseus Project URL bellow, which contains interesting hyperlinks
Son of Aristas.
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