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Key Details
Type
MountainMythology
Greek Pantheon
Coordinates
37.95°N, 21.85°E
About This Location
Boar on the mountain, centaurs at dinner
Apollodorus 2.5.4: the fourth labor is the Erymanthian boar, to be brought alive. On the way Heracles dines with Pholus; opened wine draws centaurs, and a fight kills friends (and, in the long run, Chiron). He then drives the boar into snow and nets it. Mount Erymanthos is in Arcadia. The labor is a capture; the centaur episode is the moral mess attached to the mountain.
Primary Sources
“He chased the boar from the thicket with shouts, drove it into deep snow, and trapped it in a net.”
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