Pyraichmes (King of Evia)

Pyraichmes ( Greek  Πυραίχμης "the lance of fire") is a figure in Greek mythology .

Pyraichmes was king of Euboea and made war against Boeotia . However, the young Heracles overwhelmed him and tied his body to foals, which divided him in two. He left the body unburied. All of this happened on an unlocatable Boeotian river called Herakleios. The place of the event is said to have been called "the foals of Pyraichmes" ( Πῶλοι Πυραίχμου ) and when horses drank from the river, the foals could be heard neighing.

source

• Pseudo-Plutarch , Parallela minora 7

literature

• Otto Höfer : Pyraichmes 3 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 3.2, Leipzig 1909, column 3335 ( digitized version ).