Key facts
- Grouping
- Legendary creature
- Folklore
- Greek mythology
- Country
- Greece
- Habitat
- Mount Erymanthos
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Gender
- male organism
- Country
- Greece
- Image
- Herakles Eurystheus boar Louvre F202.jpg
Show 3 more facts
- present in work
- Labours of Heracles
- Commons category
- Erymanthian Boar
- described by source
- Pauly–Wissowa
Sources (2)
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Encyclopedic overview
In Greek mythology, the Erymanthian boar (Greek: ὁ Ἐρυμάνθιος κάπρος; Latin: aper Erymanthius) was a mythical creature that took the form of a "shaggy and wild" "tameless" "boar" "of vast weight" "and foaming jaws". It was a Tegeaean, Maenalusian or Erymanthian boar that lived in the "glens of Lampeia" beside the "vast marsh of Erymanthus". It would sally from the "thick-wooded", "cypress-bearing" "heights of Erymanthus" to "harry the groves of Arcady" and "abuse the land of Psophis".
Mythology
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Erymanthian Boar” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.