Erymanthus, son of
Apollo, who saw
Aphrodite bathing naked after making love with
Adonis, and was blinded by the angry goddess. Apollo took revenge on Aphrodite by changing himself into a boar and killing Adonis (see
Erymanthian Boar).[2]
Erymanthus, an
Arcadian king as the son of
Aristas, descendant of King
Lycaon. He became the father of
Arrhon, and grandfather of
Psophis (male). Alternately, Erymanthus was the son of
Arcas, the father of
Xanthus, and again grandfather of another Psophis (female).[3]
Erymanthus, the chain of mountains in Arcadia where Hercules killed the boar; for its forests cf. Ovid Metamorphoses 2.499: silvas Erymanthidas ambit. [4]
Claudius Aelianus, Claudii Aeliani de natura animalium libri xvii, varia historia, epistolae, fragmenta, Vol 2. Rudolf Hercher. In Aedibus B.G. Teubneri. Lipsiae. 1866.
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