Erymanthus was a mortal son of Apollo, who was blinded by the Goddess Aphrodite when he accidentally saw her bathing. Apollo sent a beast known as the Erymanthian Boar to kill Adonis, a favorite of Aphrodite, as revenge.
In the primitive highlands of Arcadia, where old practices lingered, the Erymanthian Boar was a vicious creature that lived on Mount Erymanthos, a mountain that was apparently once sacred to the Mistress of the Animals, for in classical times it remained the haunt of Artemis (Homer, Odyssey, VI.105).
Robert Graves (Graves 1955,126.1) suggested that Aphrodite had been substituted for Artemis in this retelling of the mytheme of the eponymous Erymanthus.
Heracles convinced him to open it, and the smell attracted the other centaurs, who did not understand that wine needs to be tempered with water, became drunk and attacked.
The boar of the mount Erymanthus, amphora 510 BC In the fourth labor, Herakles was ordered to bring alive the wild boar living in the mount of Erymanthus, which was attacking the people and killing them.
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