Erymanthus

Role: ancestor and hunter · First appears: Book 8 · Chapter 24

In Book 8, Chapter 24, Erymanthus is named as the son of Arcas and the father of Aristas, Xanthus, and Arrho. The chapter describes him as “a hunter on Taygetus” and “a lover of Lampea.”

Relationship record

Book 8 · Chapter 24

• child: Arrho “Arrho, (the son of Erymanthus”
• parent: Aristas “Erymanthus, the son of Aristas”
• child: Xanthus “Xanthus, the son of Erymanthus”
• parent: Arcas “Erymanthus, the son of Arcas”
• with Homer (interaction) “Homer has represented Erymanthus as a hunter on Taygetus and Erymanthus”
• courtship with Lampea “a lover of Lampea”
• with Lampea (Erymanthus is represented as Lampea's lover.) “Erymanthus as a hunter on Taygetus and Erymanthus, and a lover of Lampea”

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