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5 ERASMUS+ KA2 Searching for the Labours of Hercules 2014-1-TR01-KA201-012990 Erymanthos (in Greek, Ερύμανθος) also Olonos (Ωλονός) is a mountain range in the southern part of Achaea and the northeastern part of Elis. With an elevation of 2,224 meters, it is the fourth-tallest mountain in the Peloponnese peninsula. On his way to hunt the boar, Hercules stopped to visit his friend Pholus, who was a centaur and lived in a cave near Mount Erymanthus. Chiron was the leader of the Centaurs. Chiron (Χείρων) was the eldest and wisest of the Centaurs, a tribe of half-horse men. He was a great teacher who mentored many of the great heroes of myth including Jason, Peleus, Aquilleus and Heracles. After his death he was given a place amongst the stars by Zeus as the constellation Saggitarius or Centaurus. These creatures - half-man, half-horse were aggressive and Accidentally Chiron was struck on the knee by one of Hercules' poisoned arrows. Hercules tried to help his friend and former master, but the wound would not heal, and Chiron seemed doomed to an eternal life of suffering, because he was inmortal. Heracles at Pholus', 520–510 BC. However Zeus agreed that Prometheus should take over Chiron's immortality, so the Centaur was freed from his agony and died. While Hercules was gone, Pholus examining Spain – Capture the Erymanthian boar To gain advice on how to catch the boar, Chiron had told him to drive it into thick snow, which sets this Labour in mid-winter. Having successfully caught the Boar, Heracles bound it and carried it back to Eurystheus. A favourite subject for the vase-painters: Heracles delivers the Erymanthian boar to Eurystheus who cowers inside a buried pithos vase, begging Heracles to get rid of the beast. Here Hercules brings him the boar alive and Eurystheus hides in a bronze vase. He has a, opposite to Hercules, weak character.
