Phaia

This article deals with the mythical wild boar. For the ancient port city on the Marmarica see Phaia (Marmarica) .

Theseus versus the Krommyonian sow, British Museum

The wild boar Phaia ( Greek Φαιά, "the gray one") or the Krommyonische sow is an animal of Greek mythology .

According to the library of Apollodorus , Phaia is descended from Typhon and Echidna . According to Strabo , the Calydonian boar descends from her.

Phaia terrorized the area around the village of Krommyon near Corinth , which, according to Strabo , was believed to be near the Megaris in earlier times . Killing this sow was one of Theseus's duties .

swell

• Bakchylides : fragment 18 .
• Library of Apollodorus 1, 1.
• Strabo : Geographika 8, 6, 22.
• Pausanias : Traveling in Greece 2, 1, 3.
• Diodorus 4, 59, 4.
• Plutarch : Theseus 9, 1.
• Hyginus : Fabulae 38.
• Ovid : Metamorphoses 7, 433.

Web links

Commons : Krommyonische Sau  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Krommyonische Sau at Theoi.com.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Libraries of Apollodorus 1, 1.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Strabo : Geographika 8, 6, 22.