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PATRAI (Ancient city) ACHAIA
An aboriginal of land of Patrae, taught by Triptolemus to sow.
Argyra (Argura), the nymph of a well in Achaia, was in love with a beautiful shepherd-boy, Selemnus, and visited him frequently, but when his youthful beauty vanished, she forsook him. The boy now pined away with grief, and Aphrodite, moved to pity, changed him into the river Selemnus. There was a popular belief in Achaia, that if an unhappy lover bathed in the water of this river, he would forget the grief of his love. (Paus. vii. 23.2)
ERYMANTHOS (Mountain) ACHAIA
There is also a legend that Heracles at the command of Eurystheus hunted by the side of the Erymanthus a boar that surpassed all others in size and in strength. The people of Cumae among the Opici say that the boar's tusks dedicated in their sanctuary of Apollo are those of the Erymanthian boar, but the saying is altogether improbable.
For the fourth labor, Eurystheus ordered Hercules to bring him the
Erymanthian boar alive. Now, a boar is a huge, wild pig with a bad temper, and
tusks growing out of its mouth.
This one was called the Erymanthian boar, because it lived on a mountain
called Erymanthus. Every day the boar would come crashing down from his lair on
the mountain, attacking men and animals all over the countryside, gouging them
with its tusks, and destroying everything in its path...
...It wasn't too hard for Hercules to find the boar. He could hear
the beast snorting and stomping as it rooted around for something to eat. Hercules
chased the boar round and round the mountain, shouting as loud as he could. The
boar, frightened and out of breath, hid in a thicket. Hercules poked his spear
into the thicket and drove the exhausted animal into a deep patch of snow.
Then he trapped the boar in a net, and carried it all the way to Mycenae.
Eurystheus, again amazed and frightened by the hero's powers, hid in his partly
buried bronze jar.
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Heracles. 4. The Erymanthian boar. This animal, which Heracles was ordered to bring alive, had descended from mount Erymanthus (according to others, from mount Lampe,) into Psophis. IIeracles chased him through the deep snow, and having thus worn him out, he caught him in a net, and carried him to Mycenae. (Apollod. ii. 5.4; Diod. iv. 12.) Other traditions place the hunt of the Erymanthian boar in Thessaly, and some even in Phrygia. (Eurip. Herc. Fur. 368; Hygin. Fab. 30.) It must be observed that this and subsequent labours of Heracles are connected with other subordinate ones, called Parerga, and the first of these parerga is the fight of Heracles with the Centaurs ; for it is said that in his pursuit of the boar he came to the centaur Pholus, who had received from Dionysus a cask of excellent wine. Heracles opened it, contrary to the wish of his host, and the delicious fragrance attracted the other centaurs, who besieged the grotto of Pholus. Heracles drove them away: they fled to the house of Cheiron, and Heracles, eager in his pursuit, wounded Cheiron, his old friend. Heracles was deeply grieved, and tried to save Cheiron; but in vain, for the wound was fatal. As, however, Cheiron was immortal, and could not die, he prayed to Zeus to take away his immortality, and give it to Prometheus. Thus Cheiron was delivered of his burning pain, and died. Pholus, too, was wounded by one of the arrows, which by accident fell on his foot and killed him. This fight with the centaurs gave rise to the establishment of mysteries, by which Demeter intended to purify the hero from the blood he had shed against his own will. (Apollod. ii. 5.4; Diod. iv. 14; Eurip. Herc. Fur. 364, &c.; Theocrit. vii. 150; Apollon. Rhod. i. 127; Paus. viii. 24.2; Ov. Met. ix. 192.)
This text is from: A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, 1873 (ed. William Smith). Cited Nov 2005 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
On his way to hunt the Erymanthian boar, Hercules stopped to visit
his friend Pholus, who was a centaur and lived in a cave near Mount Erymanthus.
Everyone knows that centaur is a human from his head to his waist, and a horse
for the rest of his body and his legs. Hercules was hungry and thirsty, so the
kindly centaur cooked Hercules some meat in the fireplace, while he himself ate
his meat raw.
When Hercules asked for wine, Pholus said that he was afraid to open
the wine jar, because it belonged to all the centaurs in common. But Hercules
said not to worry, and opened it himself.
Soon afterwards, the rest of the centaurs smelled the wine and came
to Pholus's cave. They were angry that someone was drinking all of their wine.
The first two who dared to enter were armed with rocks and fir trees.
Hercules grabbed burning sticks from the fireplace and threw them
at the centaurs, then went after them with his club.
He shot arrows at the rest of them and chased after them for about
twenty miles. The rest of the centaurs fled in different directions. One of the
centaurs, Chiron, received a wound that no amount of medicine would heal...but
what happened to Chiron is another story.
While Hercules was gone, Pholus pulled an arrow from the body of one
of the dead centaurs. He wondered that so little a thing could kill such a big
creature. Suddenly, the arrow slipped from his hand. It fell onto his foot and
killed him on the spot. So when Hercules returned, he found Pholus dead. He buried
his centaur friend, and proceeded to hunt the boar.
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MESSATIS (Ancient city) PATRA
The stories told of Dionysus by the people of Patrae, that he was reared in Mesatis and incurred there all sob of perils through the plots of the Titans, I will not contradict, but will leave it to the people of Patrae to explain the name Mesatis as they choose.
PATRAI (Ancient city) ACHAIA
Comaetho: Priestess of Artemis Triclaria, sacrificed to goddess for breach of chastity. Melanippos : Lover of Comaetho, sacrificed to Artemis.
FARES (Ancient city) PATRA
Son of Hermes and Phylodamia, founds Pharae.
ANTHIA (Ancient city) ACHAIA
Triptolemus: with Eumelus founds city Anthea.
AROI (Ancient city) PATRA
An aboriginal of land of Patrae, taught by Triptolemus to sow.
PATRAI (Ancient city) ACHAIA
Preugenes: Achaean leader, son of Agenor. Patreus: Son of Preugenes, Achaean leader, founds Patrae, his grave, statue, annual sacrifices to him.
AROI (Ancient city) PATRA
Aesymnetes (Aisumnetes), a surname of Dionysus, which signifies the Lord, or Ruler,
and under which he was worshipped at Aroe in Achaia. The story about the introduction
of his worship there is as follows: There was at Troy an ancient image of Dionysus,
the work of Hephaestus, which Zeus had once given as a present to Dardanus. It
was kept in a chest, and Cassandra, or, according to others, Aeneas, left this
chest behind when she quitted the city, because she knew that it would do injury
to him who possessed it. When the Greeks divided the spoils of Troy among themselves,
this chest fell to the share of the Thessallian Eurypylus, who on opening it suddenly
fell into a state of madness. The oracle of Delphi, when consulted about his recovery,
answered, " Where thou shalt see men performing a strange sacrifice, there shalt
thou dedicate the chest, and there shalt thou settle." When Eurypylus came to
Aroe in Achaia, it was just the season at which its inhabitants offered every
year to Artemis Triclaria a human sacrifice, consisting of the fairest youth and
the fairest maiden of the place. This sacrifice was offered as an atonement for
a crime which had once been committed in the temple of the goddess. But an oracle
had declared to them, that they should be released from the necessity of making
this sacrifice, if a foreign divinity should be brought to them by a foreign king.
This oracle was now fulfilled. Eurypylus on seeing the victims led to the altar
was cured of his madness and perceived that this was the place pointed out to
him by the oracle; and the Aroeans also, on seeing the god in the chest, remembered
the old prophecy, stopped the sacrifice, and instituted a festival of Dionysus
Aesymnetes, for this was the name of the god in the chest. Nine men and nine women
were appointed to attend to his worship. During one night of this festival a priest
carried the chest outside the town, and all the children of the place, adorned,
as formerly the victims used to be, with garlands of corn-ears, went down to the
banks of the river Meilichius, which had before been called Ameilichius, hung
up their garlands, purified themselves, and then put on other garlands of ivy,
after which they returned to the sanctuary of Dionysus Aesymnetes (Paus. vii.
19 and 20). This tradition, though otherwise very obscure, evidently points to
a time when human sacrifices were abolished at Aroe by the introduction of a new
worship. At Patrae in Achaia there was likewise a temple dedicated to Dionysus
Aesymnetes (Paus. vii. 21.12).
This text is from: A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, 1873 (ed. William Smith). Cited Sep 2005 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
DYMI (Ancient city) PATRA
A Dymaean, loved by Herakles, his tomb.
OLENOS (Ancient city) PATRA
Son of Dexamenus.
PATRAI (Ancient city) ACHAIA
Son of Euaemon, brings image of Dionysus in chest to Aroe (Patrae).
TRITEA (Ancient city) PATRA
Son of Ares and Tritia.
OLENOS (Ancient city) PATRA
Daughter of Dexamenus, wooed by a centaur, rescued by Herakles, statue of.
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ANTHIA (Ancient city) ACHAIA
Son of Eumelus, killed in driving car of Triptolemus.
DYMI (Ancient city) PATRA
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Dymas, (Dumas), a son of Aegimius, and brother of Pamphylus and Hyllus. The three tribes into which each Doric state was divided, derived their names from these three brothers, and were called accordingly Hylleis, Dymanes, and Pamphyli. Dymas and Pamphylus were believed to have lived from the time of Heracles until the conquest of Peloponnesus, when both fell. (Apollod ii. 8.3; Schol. ad Pind. Pyth. li. 121, where the third brother is called Dorus; Paus. vii. 16.3.) There are three other mythical personages of this name. (Hom. Il. xvi. 719; Apollod. iii. 12.5 ; Ov. Met. xi. 761; Hom. Od. vi. 22; Virg. Aen. ii 310, 428.)
This text is from: A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, 1873 (ed. William Smith). Cited Oct 2005 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
ERYMANTHOS (Mountain) ACHAIA
Son of Aristas.
TRITEA (Ancient city) PATRA
Daughter of Triton, virgin priestess of Athena, sacrifices offered to her.
VOLINA (Ancient city) ACHAIA
A maiden loved by Apollo.
OLENOS (Ancient city) PATRA
King of Olenus, receives Herakles, father of Eurypylus.
AROI (Ancient city) PATRA
Triptolemus came from Attica, he received from him cultivated corn, and, learning how to found a city, named it Aroe from the tilling of the soil. (Paus. 7.18.2)
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