Erymanthus (mythology) explained

In Greek mythology, the name Erymanthus (Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: Ἐρύμανθος|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 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]

References

• Claudius Aelianus, Varia Historia translated by Thomas Stanley (d.1700) edition of 1665. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
• Claudius Aelianus, Claudii Aeliani de natura animalium libri xvii, varia historia, epistolae, fragmenta, Vol 2. Rudolf Hercher. In Aedibus B.G. Teubneri. Lipsiae. 1866. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Pausanias, Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918. . Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
• Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.

Notes and References

1. [Claudius Aelianus|Aelian]
2. [Ptolemy Hephaestion]
3. [Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]
4. R. D. Williams, 1960, Virgil, Aeneid V, ed. w. Commentary. NY: Oxford University Press, p. 130.