Pholos
Pholos ( Greek Φόλος ) is a Centaur in Greek mythology . His parents are Silenus and Melia , and he lives in a cave on Mount Pholoe between Arcadia and Elis .
Heracles passes the mountain while trying to catch the Erymanthian boar . He stops at Pholos and he opens a barrel of wine that the Centaurs share in his honor, a gift from Dionysus . The centaurs are attracted by the strong scent of the wine and attack Heracles armed with trees and pieces of rock. The first two Centaurs, Anchios and Agrios , he drives away with a torch and kills many with his poisoned arrows, whereupon the others flee. In this battle, Heracles' friend Cheiron is mortally wounded. After the fight, Pholos pulls an arrow from a corpse, which falls from his hand and bores into his hoof. He dies as a result of the wound.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Libraries of Apollodorus 2,5,4
- ↑ Diodor , Bibliotheca historica 4.12
- ↑ Libraries of Apollodorus 2,5,4
literature
- Otto Höfer : Pholos . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 3.2, Leipzig 1909, Col. 2416-2423 ( digitized version ).
