What is Erymanthian Boar?
[[Image:Berlin-tiergarten luetzowplatz herkules 20050506 p1030069.jpg|thumb|right|''Heracles and the Erymanthian Boar'', by [[Louis Tuaillon]], 1904 ([[Berlin]] Tierpark)]] In [[Greek mythology]], the '''Erymanthian Boar''' (Greek: ὁ Ἐρυμάνθιοs κάπρος; Latin: aper Erymanthius) is a creature. It is known in connection with [[Labours of Hercules|The Twelve Labours]], in which [[Heracles]], the enemy of [[Hera]], visited all the other sites of the Goddess throughout the world to defeat every monster that nature could imagine, and return the early world to his Olympian father, [[Zeus]], who would be its new master.<ref>Ruck and Staples, p. 163.</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{Refbegin}} *[[Robert Graves|Graves, Robert]], ''The Greek Myths'' 1955. *[[Karl Kerenyi|Kerenyi, Karl]], ''The Heroes of the Greeks'' 1959. *[[Carl A. P. Ruck]] and Danny Staples, ''The World of Classical Myth,'' 1994. *[[Ovid]], ''Heroides'' *[[Apollodorus]], ii.5.4ff *[[Diodorus Siculus]] iv.12 *[[Apollonius of Rhodes]] i.122ff *[[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], ''Greece'' {{Refend}} == Other websites == * [http://www.greekmountainflora.info/Mt%20Erymanthos%20Jalbum/Mt%20Erymanthos%20Greece.html Greek Mountain Flora] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080118110405/http://www.greekmountainflora.info/Mt%20Erymanthos%20Jalbum/Mt%20Erymanthos%20Greece.html |date=2008-01-18 }} * [http://www.theoi.com/Ther/HusErymanthios.html Theoi Project : '''Erymanthian Boar''', Giant boar of Arcadia] {{Commonscat|Erymanthian Boar}} [[Category:Greek legendary creatures]] [[Category:Pigs]]