Apheidas (Centaur)

Apheidas ( Greek Ἀφείδας ) is a figure in Greek mythology .

Apheidas was one of the centaurs who attended Peirithoos' wedding ceremony . But when a bloody fight broke out between the Centaurs and the Lapiths , Apheidas was so intoxicated with the wine that he slept on a bearskin without hearing the noise of the battle. So the Lapith Phorbas found him asleep, still holding a cup of wine in his hand, and in this position pierced him with a spear.

literature

Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher : Apheidas 4 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1,1, Leipzig 1886, column 390 ( digitized version ).
Johannes Toepffer : Apheidas 4 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume I, 2, Stuttgart 1894, Col. 2714.

Remarks

^ Ovid , Metamorphosen 12, 317 ff.

[1] Ovid , Metamorphosen 12, 317 ff.