Further Resources: The Erymanthean Boar

• Read the story of Hercules and the Erymanthean Boar, as told by Apollodorus, the ancient writer who collected legends in his mythology handbook, the Library.

• The Temple of Zeus at Olympia was decorated with sculptures illustrating the Labors of Hercules. Look at the sculpture catalog entry for the Erymanthean Boar metope.

• Read a passage from Pausanias in which he reports on where the boar's tusks ended up.

• See catalog entries and more pictures of coins with boars on them.

• Read Euripides' description of Hercules' battle with the centaurs.

• Did Centaurs really exist? Read Socrates' answer from a passage in Plato's Phaedrus.

• See the catalog entry and more pictures of the Malibu cup with the boar hunt , the London vase with Hercules and the centaur Pholus, the RISD vase with the centaur throwing the rock, the Malibu vase of Hercules fighting the centaurs, the Harvard vase with Hercules attacking the boar, or the Mississippi vase with Hercules bringing the boar to Eurystheus.

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