Eurytion

A centaur who took to flight during the fight of Heracles with the centaurs; but he was afterwards killed by Heracles in the dominions of Dexamenus, whose daughter Deianeira, or, according to others Hippolyte or Mnesimache, Eurytion was about to claim as his wife.

References

Sources

  • Hyginus. Fabulae, 31.
  • Pseudo-Apollodorus. The Library ii, 5.4 ff.; comp. Diodorus Siculus. Historical Library iv, 33.
  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.

This article incorporates text from Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (1870) by William Smith, which is in the public domain.