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		The Erymanthian Boar was hunted by Hercules as one of his the Twelve Labours, and the Calydonian Boar was hunted in the Calydonian Hunt by dozens of other mythological heroes, including some of the Argonauts and the huntress Atalanta.
		In Belgium, the wild boar is the symbolic animal of the Ardennes forests in the south of the country, and is the mascot of one of the Belgian Army\'s premier infantry regiments, the Chasseurs Ardennais, the soldiers of which wear a boar\'s head pin on their beret.
		Boar bristles continue to be used in the manufacture of premium dart boards for use with steel-tipped darts: a large quantity of bristles are aligned parallel to each other and compressed in a circular band of steel to form the board.
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	Boar information - Search.com
		The Wild Boar (Sus scrofa) is the wild ancestor of the domestic pig.
		The wild boar was a symbol of Richard III of England.
		A complete beast may represent what are seen as the positive qualities of the boar, namely courage and fierceness in battle; a boar's head may represent hospitality (from the common provision of roast boar at banquets), or it may symbolise that the bearer of the arms is a noted hunter.
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	Celebrating the Boar \| Display \| Library \| University of Waterloo
		The fourth of the labours of Herakles involved the pursuit and capture of the Erymanthian boar.
		The fierceness of the boar and the dangers of hunting it remain a constant element.
		A boar as the emblem of the 20th Legion on a terracotta antefix.
	www.lib.uwaterloo.ca /tour/boar/BoarArt.html (1505 words)

	Erymanthian Boar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Heracles and the Erymanthian Boar, by Louis Tuaillon, 1904 (Berlin Tierpark)
		In the primitive highlands of Arcadia, where old practices lingered, the Erymanthian Boar was a vicious creature that lived on Mount Erymanthos, a mountain that was apparently once sacred to the Mistress of the Animals, for in classical times it remained the haunt of Artemis (Homer, Odyssey, VI.105).
		Having successfully caught the Boar, Heracles bound it and carried it back to Eurystheus, who was frightened of it and ducked down in his chamber pot, begging Heracles to get rid of the beast, a favorite subject for the vase-painters.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Erymanthian_Boar (449 words)

	Hercules - The Erymanthian Boar
		It's smell was that of dying cattle and the boar was stronger than a steroid packed college lineman.
		The boar got closer and closer but right before the boar hit him Hercules tumbled to the side in fear that without his armor he would be injured.
		The trail that the boar had left was easy to follow, fallen tree after fallen tree marked the charging path of the angry boar.
	www2.lhric.org /eastchester/schools/ms/hercules/hercules4.html (847 words)

	Boar - TvWiki, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Historically, boar hunting was traditionally done by groups of spearmen using a specialised boar spear.
		Specialised boar swords were also used in boar hunting, and also large hunting dogs, which would usually be equipped with heavy leather armour.
		Armoured dogs are also used by modern boar hunters to track and subdue their quarry, which is then despatched using a knife, rifle or compound bow.
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	ERYMANTHIAN BOAR : Giant boar of Arcadia, labor Heracles ; Greek mythology ; pictures : HUS ERYMANTHIOS
		THE HUS ERYMANTHIOS (or Erymanthian Boar) was a gigantic boar which ravished the farmlands of Psophis in western Arkadia.
		The king, terrified at the sight of the deadly boar, leapt into a buried pithos jar for safety.
		The boar may have once been assigned a Constellation like many of the beasts of Herakles' Labours.
	www.theoi.com /Ther/HusErymanthios.html (647 words)

	Erymanthian Boar
		The third labor for Heracles was to track down, capture and then take back to Eurystheus the great boar, which roamed the high forest region of Mount Erymanthus in Arcadia.
		Full of remorse for what had happened Heracles returned to complete his task, seeking out the great Erymanthian boar, driving it from the forest up to the snow covered peaks, chasing the beast until it weakened.
		When the boar fell into a large snow-drift Heracles then pounced on the beast, tightly binding its feet, he then threw the boar over his shoulder and carried it back to the palace of Eurystheus.
	www.pantheon.org /articles/e/erymanthian_boar.html (444 words)

	Boar - Article from FactBug.org - the fast Wikipedia mirror site
		Wild boars are hunted rather because they are damaging crops and forests than for food.
		Such hunting was traditionally done by groups of spearmen using a specialised boar spear.
		Such dog armour is also used by modern boar hunters, who however are usually armed with rifles or powerful compound bows.
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	Erymanthian Boar
		fourth labor given to him by Eurystheus was to capture the Erymanthian Boar.
		This boar was a very large creature with tusks like an elephants, and arrow-proof skin.
		Heracles chased the boar into the mountains all through winter until it finally got stuck in a deep snowdrift.
	library.thinkquest.org /23057/seven/erymanthian.html (110 words)

	The Boar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		A boar is basically a huge wild pig that is bad tempered and dangerous because it has long, sharp tusks coming out of its mouth.
		This boar lived on a mountain called Erymanthus, which was not too far from King Eurystheus' house in Mycenae.
		People were scared of this boar because the boar would terrorize the people on a daily basis, attacking and destroying everything in sight.
	people.uncw.edu /deagona/herakles/children/boar.htm (424 words)

	Greek Mythology : Erymanthian Boar
		Hercules and the Erymanthian Boar presented to Eurystheus (A cousin of Hercules who was king of Mycenae and Tiryns) He ordered Hercules the 12 labors.
		The tusks and skin were at first preserved, like any other precious relic, in the shrine of Artemis at Tegea; then Augustus, who had a weakness for such curiosities, caused one of the teeth—the other was broken—to be transported into a temple of Bacchus at Rome.
		Treasury of Sikyon - Delphi: the Calydonian Boar - fragment of a metope - ca.
	www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/Gods/ErymanthianBoar.html (270 words)

	Boar - NumisWiki, The Collaborative Numismatics Project
		Boar - The figure of a wild boar transfixed by a spear is exhibited on a denarius of Durmius, one of the monetal triumvirs of Augustus.
		Eckhel remarks that these effigies of the boar and the lion bear allusion to the splendid huntings in which Augustus took such great delight, as narrated by Dion Cassius and by Suetonius.
		On a coin of the Voletia gens, the Erymanthian boar is represented.
	www.forumancientcoins.com /NumisWiki/view.asp?key=Boar (162 words)

	Calydonian Boar - WiccanWeb.ca (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Calydonian Boar is one of a genre of chthonic monsters in Greek Mythology, each set in a specific locale, which must be overcome by heroes of Olympian age.
		The boar's hide that was preserved in the Temple of Athena at Tegea in Laconia was reputedly that of the Calydonian Boar, "rotted by age and by now altogether without bristles" by the time Pausanias saw it in the second century CE (Description of Greece viii.47.2).
		Strabo (Geography 8.6.22) reckoned she was the mother of the Calydonian Boar, but there are no hints within the myths to link the two and suggest Strabo might have been right.
	www.wiccanweb.ca /wiki/index.php/Calydonian_Boar (979 words)

	4.) The Erymanthian Boar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Erymanthian Boar was a terrible thing, it had tusks like an elephant’s and an arrow proof skin.
		Then he lifted the boar up and tie its hind legs to its forelegs.
		He then carried it back to Eurystheus, who as usual, was tired of the new monster that Heracles had managed to capture.
	library.thinkquest.org /23057/erymanthian.html (79 words)

	AncientCoinArt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		This one was called the Erymanthian boar, because it lived on a mountain called Erymanthus.
		Every day the boar would come crashing down from his lair on the mountain, attacking men and animals all over the countryside, gouging them with its tusks, and destroying everything in its path.
		On his way to hunt the boar, Hercules stopped to visit his friend Pholus, who was a centaur and lived in a cave near Mount Erymanthus.
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	Erymanthian boar - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Erymanthian boar, in Greek mythology, a huge boar that ravaged the environs of Mt. Erymanthos.
		Find newspaper and magazine articles plus images and maps related to "Erymanthian boar" at HighBeam.
		Lizards, lions, and the uncanny in early Greek art.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-erymanthi.html (206 words)

	Erymanthian Boar (Hercules' labors)
		The Erymanthian Boar possessed the normal conventional attributes of a normal European boar (Genus: Sus scrofus) including formidable tusks and the ability to run faster than human beings (up to 30 miles an hour).
		(Greek/Roman Myth, Hercules III#1 (fb)) - The Erymanthian boar was a boar of significant size that prowled and hunted on the slopes of Mount Erymanthus in Arcadia.
		Trapping the boar in deep snow on the mountain, he took it to King Eurystheus who again hid in a jar on his approach.
	www.marvunapp.com /Appendix3/erymanthianboar.htm (312 words)

	Hercules and the Erymanthian Boar by DELVAUX, Laurent
		The naked Hercules is presented as a strongly muscled man with a club and the skin of the Nemean lion draped over his left arm.
		At his feet lies the chained Erymanthian boar.
		One of these was to capture alive the boar that was scourging Mount Erymanthus.
	gallery.euroweb.hu /html/d/delvaux/hercules.html (425 words)

	The Erymanthian boar, Heracles, Ancient Greece - mythology.
		The Erymanthian boar, Heracles, Ancient Greece - mythology.
		He competed in running and arrows shooting with young Myconeans, until the Lord sent him to the Erymanth mountain to capture the big boar, which devastated the crops and vineyards.
		Having reached the goal he drove the boar high in mountains and captured him there.
	www.tours2greece.info /greece-travel/third_feat.php (193 words)

	Hercules and the Erymanthian Boar by DELVAUX, Laurent
		The naked Hercules is presented as a strongly muscled man with a club and the skin of the Nemean lion draped over his left arm.
		At his feet lies the chained Erymanthian boar.
		One of these was to capture alive the boar that was scourging Mount Erymanthus.
	www.wga.hu /html/d/delvaux/hercules.html (393 words)

	Hercules - Heracles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The fourth Labor took Heracles back to Arcadia in quest of an enormous boar, which he was challenged to bring back alive.
		Heracles finally located the boar on Mount Erymanthus and managed to drive it into a snowbank, immobilizing it.
		Flinging it up onto his shoulder, he carried it back to Eurystheus, who cowered as usual in his storage jar.
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	The Erymanthian Boar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		But capturing it alive he will have to fight the beast, therefore the boar will kill him.
		Hercules searched for long before he finally found the boar's tracks on a snow-bank.
		As soon as the boar realized the presents of Hercules he try to run away, but our hero who had a rope with him, throw it to the boar, managing to pass the loop tight around the boars head, immobilizing it.
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	Heracles and the Erymanthian Boar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		[4] As a fourth labour he ordered him to bring the Erymanthian boar alive; now that animal ravaged Psophis, sallying from a mountain which they call Erymanthus.
		But Pholus, drawing the arrow from a corpse, wondered that so little a thing could kill such big fellows; howbeit, it slipped from his hand and lighting on his foot killed him on the spot.
		And when he had chased the boar with shouts from a certain thicket, he drove the exhausted animal into deep snow, trapped it, and brought it to Mycenae.
	www3.baylor.edu /~John_Thorburn/HeraclesBoar.html (366 words)

	Alice Bailey & Djwhal Khul - Esoteric Philosophy - Master Index - BOAR
		VII LABOR VII The Capture of the Erymanthian Boar (Libra, September 22nd - October 21st) The Myth
		Hercules took every precaution not to kill the boar, he ended by killing two friends.
		The only answer is to take the boar of desire up into the high mountains.
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	Erymanthian Boar
		In Greek mythology, Heracles' fourth labor was to capture the Erymanthian Boar, a vicious creature that lived on Mt.
		After Heracles caught the Erymanthian Boar, he went back to Eurystheus who was frightened and hid in a large jar.
		He begged Heracles to get rid of the beast; Heracles obliged.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/er/Erymanthian_Boar.html (143 words)

	The Erymanthian Boar: The fourth of Heracles' Twelve Labors
		The Erymanthian Boar: The fourth of Heracles' Twelve Labors
		Chiron suggested that Heracles drive the boar into the heavy snow, in order to slow it down and catch it.
		Eurystheus was so frightened by it, that he retreated into the vase from which he hid from Heracles, demanding that the hero do away with the beast.
	ancienthistory.suite101.com /article.cfm/the_erymanthian_boar (157 words)

	Classical Myths and Legends: Major Heroes
		Artemis, and for the Fourth, the fierce Erymanthian Boar.
		Heracles was to clean the stables of King AUGEAS of Elis in a single day, a task which he accomplished by diverting a couple of local rivers.
		ALCESTIS was the wife of King Admetus of Pherae, who won her hand by successfully driving a team of yoked wild boar and lion.
	oldweb.uwp.edu /academic/english/canary/heroes.html (1306 words)

	98.02.06: Hercules the hero: understanding the myth
		He next labor of Hercules was to capture the Erymanthian [Er-i-MAN-thi-an] boar [at the beginning of this section we will establish what a boar is by defining the word and searching in available classroom and library resources for a comprehensive understanding] which lived on the slopes of Mount in Erymanthus.
		The boar told Aphrodite that he hadn’t meant to kill Adonis, but simply to embrace him.
		Hercules took the boar and released it into the sea where it swam to the west toward Italy.
	www.yale.edu /ynhti/curriculum/units/1998/2/98.02.06.x.html (6573 words)

	HERCULES IN LIBRA ~ THE MYTH
		Before Hercules captured the Erymanthian boar, he sat at the table of Pholos and drank heady wine.
		We are told that Hercules seizes the hind legs of the boar, and compels the beast to walk down the mountainside on its front legs, and that this spectacle excites the laughter of all who witness it.
		The graphic description of Hercules driving the boar by its hind legs is a symbolic representation of the soul directing the ungainly body.
	www.souledout.org /hercules/herculeslibra/herculeslibra.html (4729 words)

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