Greek PantheonMountain
Mount Erymanthos
The Arcadian mountain of the Erymanthian boar, which Heracles drove into deep snow and captured alive in his fourth labour, after a fatal fight with the centaurs on the way.
About Mount Erymanthos
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.
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Mount Erymanthos among other places of the Greek Pantheon.
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- Apollodorus, Library 2.5.4
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