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.

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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.