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  • The chariot was decorated with a frieze relief in bronze, depicting three of Hercules' labours: namely, the Cerberus dog, the wild boar of Erymanthian, and the Stymphalian birds.

    Archive 2008-06-01 Jan 2008

  • The chariot was decorated with a frieze relief in bronze, depicting three of Hercules' labours: namely, the Cerberus dog, the wild boar of Erymanthian, and the Stymphalian birds.

    Stunning Horse and Chariot Burial Uncovered in Greece Jan 2008

  • Lampeia, near the vast Erymanthian swamp, the boar bound with chains he put down from his huge shoulders at the entrance to the market-place of

    The Argonautica 2008

  • Erymanthian woodlands and made Lerna tremble at his bow: nor he who sways his team with reins of vine, Liber the conqueror, when he drives his tigers from Nysa's lofty crest.

    The Aeneid of Virgil 70 BC-19 BC Virgil

  • Macalla, in Bruttium, not far from Crotona, where Pythagoras had lived; the head of the Calydonian Boar was at Beneventum, east of Capua, and the Erymanthian Boar's tusks were at Cumæ, celebrated for its Sibyl; the armor of Diomede, one of the Trojan heroes, was at Luceria, in the vicinity of Cannæ; the cup of Ulysses and the tomb of Elpenor were at

    The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic Arthur Gilman

  • But when he heard a report of the heroes 'gathering and had reached Lyrceian Argos from Arcadia by the road along which he carried the boar alive that fed in the thickets of Lampeia, near the vast Erymanthian swamp, the boar bound with chains he put down from his huge shoulders at the entrance to the market-place of Mycenae; and himself of his own will set out against the purpose of

    The Argonautica Apollonius Rhodius

  • The capture of the Erymanthian boar is usually given as the third labor and the capture of the Cerynean stag as the fourth. nárrávimus.

    Ritchie's Fabulae Faciles A First Latin Reader John [Editor] Kirtland

  • This deer that fed about Ladon and the Erymanthian water and the ridges of Pholoe haunted by wild beasts, Lycormas son of Thearidas of

    Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology Anonymous 1902

  • _Erymanthian, of Erymanthus_, a district in southern Greece

    Latin for Beginners Benjamin Leonard D'Ooge 1900

  • Above the doors of the temple is the hunting of the Erymanthian boar, and Hercules taking the mares of Diomede the Thracian, and robbing Geryon of his oxen in the island of

    Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 8 Italy and Greece, Part Two 1885

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