Agrios (Centaur)
Heracles holds a torch against the centaurs who are entering the cave. Corinthian - black-figure Skyphos , Pholoe painter , around 590-580 BC Chr.
Agrios ( ancient Greek Ἄγριος ) is a centaur of Greek mythology .
He appears in the library of Apollodorus as part of the fourth task of Heracles , in which he has to catch the Erymanthian boar . During his search for the boar, Heracles is hospitably received and entertained by the centaur Pholos . When Herakles opens a wine barrel of the Centaurs, despite the reservations of his host, the Centaurs are attracted by the smell and armed siege the cave of Pholos. The first centaurs to penetrate the cave are Anchios and Agrios, whom he drives away with a torch. He fights the others with his bow.
See also
literature
- Georg Wentzel : Agrios 4 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume I, 1, Stuttgart 1893, Col. 896.
- Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher: Agrios 3 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1.1, Leipzig 1886, column 107 ( digitized version ).