Eurytion

Role: centaur · First appears: Book 5 · Chapter 10

At Pirithous’s marriage at Olympia, Eurytion tried to carry off Pirithous’s wife, and Cæneus came to her rescue as defenders attacked the Centaurs. The scene also shows Theseus fighting among the Centaurs with his battle-axe.

Later, in Book 7, Eurytion is mentioned in connection with Hermesianax in an account of the people of Olenus leaving their settlement and moving to Piræ and Euryteæ.

Relationship record

Life events

• At Pirithous’s marriage, Eurytion abducted his wife and defenders attacked the Centaurs.(Book 5 · Chapter 10 · 📍 Olympia)
  • With: Pirithous Cæneus Theseus
  • “the fight between the Lapithæ and the Centaurs at the marriage of Pirithous. Pirithous is in the centre, and on one side of him is Eurytion trying to carry off Pirithous’ wife and Cæneus coming to the rescue, and on the other side Theseus laying about among the Centaurs with his battle-axe”

Book 5 · Chapter 10

• with Pirithous (Eurytion attempts to abduct Pirithous' unnamed wife.) “Eurytion trying to carry off Pirithous’ wife and Cæneus coming to the rescue”
• with Cæneus (Cæneus comes to the rescue during Eurytion's attempted abduction.) “Eurytion trying to carry off Pirithous’ wife and Cæneus coming to the rescue”

Book 7 · Chapter 18

• with Hermesianax (No direct relationship is stated in the contiguous passage naming Hermesianax and Eurytion.) “But in process of time they say the people of Olenus left it in consequence of its weakness, and betook themselves to Piræ and Euryteæ.”

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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.