Erymanthus
(
Ἐρύμανθος).
1.
A mountainchain in the northwest angle of Arcadia, celebrated in fable as the haunt of the
savage boar destroyed by Heracles (
Apollod. ii. 5.3; Pausan.
viii. 24; Ho mer,
Od. vi. 103). Apollonius places the Erymanthian monster in the wilds
of Mount Lampea; but this mountain was that part of the chain where the river Erymanthus took
its rise.
2.
A river of Arcadia, descending from the mountain of the same name, and flowing near the
town of Psophis. After receiving another small stream, called the Aroanius, it joins the
Alpheus on the borders of Elis. The modern name of the Erymanthus is the Dogana.