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A boar was a dangerous animal: "When the goddess turned a wrathful countenance upon a country, as in the story of Meleager, she would send a raging boar, which laid waste the farmers' fields." [10] Heracles and the Erymanthian Boar, by Francisco de Zurbarán, 1634 (Museo del Prado)
A host of legendary creatures, animals, and mythic humanoids occur in ancient Greek mythology.Anything related to mythology is mythological. A mythological creature (also mythical or fictional entity) is a type of fictional entity, typically a hybrid, that has not been proven and that is described in folklore (including myths and legends), but may be featured in historical accounts before ...
In Greek mythology, the name Erymanthus (Ancient Greek: Ἐρύμανθος, romanized: Erýmanthos) may refer to: Erymanthus, god of the river Erymanthus. He was worshipped at Psophis. [1] Erymanthus, son of Apollo, who saw Aphrodite bathing naked after having sex with Adonis, and was blinded by the angry goddess.
2 Mythology. 3 Biology. Toggle the table of contents ... an ancient Greek city of Arcadia later known as Psophis; Mythology. Erymanthian Boar, a beast hunted by ...
The Labours of Hercules or Labours of Heracles (Ancient Greek: ἆθλοι, âthloi [1] Latin: Labores) are a series of tasks carried out by Heracles, the greatest of the Greek heroes, whose name was later romanised as Hercules. They were accomplished in the service of King Eurystheus. The episodes were later connected by a continuous narrative.
In Greek mythology, the Ceryneian hind (Ancient Greek: Κερυνῖτις ἔλαφος Kerynitis elaphos, Latin: Elaphus Cerynitis), was a creature that lived in Ceryneia, [1] Greece and took the form of an enormous female deer, larger than a bull, [1] with golden antlers [2] like a stag, [3] hooves of bronze or brass, [4] and a "dappled hide", [5] that "excelled in swiftness of foot", [6 ...
Erymanthian Boar – Giant boar; Ethiopian Pegasus (Medieval Bestiaries) – Horned, winged horse; Etiäinen (Finnish mythology) – Spirit being of a living person; Ettin – Three-headed giant; Eurynomos – Blue-black, carrion-eater in the underworld; Ewah – Human-cougar hybrid; Ežerinis – Lake spirit
The Calydonian boar is one of several monsters in Greek mythology named for a specific locale. Sent by Artemis to ravage the region of Calydon in Aetolia, it met its end in the Calydonian boar hunt, in which many of the great heroes of the age took part (an exception being Heracles, who vanquished his own Goddess-sent Erymanthian boar separately).