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Pausanias, Description of Greece 40 0 Browse Search
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Apollodorus, Library and Epitome (ed. Sir James George Frazer) 10 0 Browse Search
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Apollodorus, Library (ed. Sir James George Frazer), book 2 (search)
eading necessity and laying the blame on Eurystheus, he appeased the anger of the goddess and carried the beast alive to Mycenae. As a fourth labour he ordered him to bring the Erymanthian boar alive;As to the Erymanthian boar and the centaurs, see Soph. Trach. 1095ff.; Diod. 4.12; Tzetzes, Chiliades ii.268ff.; Hyginus, Fab. 30. The boar's tusks were said to be preserved in a sanctuary of Apollo at Cumae in Campania （Paus. 8.24.5）. now that animal ravaged Psophis, sallying from a mountain which they call Erymanthus. So passing through Pholoe he was entertained by the centaur Pholus, a son of Silenus by a Melian nymph.As to these nymphs, see Hesiod, Th. 187. The name perhaps means an ash-tree nymph （from meli/a, an ash tree）, as Dryad means an oak tree nymph （from dru=s, an oak tree）. He set roast meat before Hercules, while he himself ate his meat raw. When Hercules called for wine, he said he feared to op
Apollodorus, Library (ed. Sir James George Frazer), book 3 (search)
Amphiaraus, and therefore the grandfather of Alcmaeon. See Apollod. 1.8.2. in Arcadia, and thence to Phegeus at Psophis. And having been purified by him he married Arsinoe, daughter of Phegeus,Paus. 8.24.8 and Prop. i.15.19 cted the necklace and robe, and said she would not live with him if she did not get them. So away Alcmaeon hied to Psophis and told Phegeus how it had been predicted that he should be rid of his madness when he had brought the necklace t and killed him.His grave was overshadowed by tall cypresses, called the Maidens, in the bleak upland valley of Psophis. See Paus. 8.24.7. A quiet resting-place for the matricide among the solemn Arcadian mountains after thoterus and Acarnan, the sons of Alcmaeon; and the sons of Alcmaeon killed their father's murderers, and going to Psophis and entering the palace they slew both Phegeus and his wife. They were pursued as far as Tegea, but saved by the