Eurytion1.0000_OGCMA

Eurytion. (1) A centaur (also called Eurytus) who participated in the battle with the Lapiths at the wedding of Pirithous and Hippodamia. See Centaurs; Pirithous, Wedding. (2) The herdsman of Geryon, whose cattle were the object of Heracles’ tenth labor. See Heracles, Labors of, Cattle of Geryon.

OGCMA slides are designed by Roger T. Macfarlane for use in Classical Civilization 241 courses at Brigham Young University.
The present resource contains information assembled for The Oxford Guide to Classical Mythology in the Arts, 1300 - 1990's, edited by J. Davidson Reid (Oxford 1994), and it is used with express permission from Oxford University press.
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