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	Erysichthon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In Greek mythology, King Erysichthon (also spelled Erisichthon, both of which translate as "Earth-tearer") of Thessaly was the son of Triopas.
		Erysichthon sold her numerous times to make money to feed himself.
		There was another Erysichthon, the son of King Cecrops I of Athens, of whom it is only known that he died childless during his father's reign.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Erysichthon (145 words)

	Mythic detritus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Erysichthon needed wood to build a hall, so one day he entered a grove of oak trees.
		She begged Erysichthon to stop, telling the heartless man that not only was he killing her tree, he was also murdering her in the process.
		In the end, Erysichthon was punished for defiling Demeter's sacred grove and taking the life of a hamadryad.
	corbidity.blogspot.com /2003_10_21_corbidity_archive.html (322 words)

	Fairy art by Jessica Galbreth, fairy pictures, prints & fairy gifts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Erysichthon was in need of wood in order to build this hall, so he sought out to supply himself with wood taken from an enchanted grove of beautiful, very, very old oak trees.
		Erysichthon, being the cold and heartless man that he was, ignored her desperate pleas to stop, and eventually chopped down the tree, thus killing it and the poor Dryad that lived within it.
		What Erysichthon did not know was that this sacred oak grove, with its ancient trees and their Dryads, was very special to the goddess Demeter.
	www.fairyvisions.com /dryads.htm (504 words)

	DEMETER - LoveToKnow Article on DEMETER (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		At Eleusis also, Triptolemus (q.v.), the son of Celeus, who was said to have invented the plough and to have been sent by Demeter round the world to diffuse the knowledge of agriculture, had a temple and threshing-floor.
		Some scholars, identifying lasion with Jason (q.v.), regard Thessaly as the original home of the legend, and the union with Demeter as the ispi~r yiiuor of mother earth with a health god.
		Erysichthon (tearer up of the earth), son of Triopas or Myrmidon, having cut down the trees in.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /D/DE/DEMETER.htm (3597 words)

	Chuk's Comix Blog: (Not Very) Quick Synopsis
		Essentially, the story is about King Erysichthon of Thessaly who, because of his own greed and disregard for Nature, is cursed with an insatiable hunger.
		Erysichthon does indeed decide to cut down the sacred (world) Tree, or grove of trees, which had been consecrated to the goddess, Demeter.
		Erysichthon transforms into an acorn and is planted as the new sacred (world) tree.
	chuxcomix.blogspot.com /2005/02/not-very-quick-synopsis.html (1711 words)

	heksenvrienden
		The story of Erysichthon is a sad tale about the fate of one such Dryad and her tree...The story begins with Erysichthon, the King of Thessaly, setting out on a task to build a hall.
		Erysichthon was in need of wood in order to build this hall, so he sought out to supply himself with wood taken from an enchanted grove of beautiful and old oak trees.
		Erysichthon, being the cold and heartless man that he was, ignored her desperate pleas to stop, and eventually chopped down the tree, thus killing it and the Dryad that lived within it.
	be.msnusers.com /heksenvrienden/d.msnw (1418 words)

	Mythography \| Dryads and Hamadryads in Myth and Art
		Undaunted, Erysichthon continued to cut through the bleeding bark.
		It was the voice of the hamadryad who lived in the oak.
		The details of this story - as well as Erysichthon's punishment - can be found in the Metamorphoses of Ovid.
	www.loggia.com /myth/dryads.html (428 words)

	Lewis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		I will argue that Ovid’s description of Fames and the larger episode in which she features, the punishment of Erysichthon, correspond significantly to his description of Invidia, further illuminating and defining envy and its effects.
		The description of Fames’; effects on Erysichthon, who is driven to literal self-consumption, reinforces the figurative self-consumption which Invidia enacts.
		Erysichthon, however, ultimately finds nourishment (infelix minuendo corpus alebat, 8.878) through eating himself; neither Invidia, nor those she affects with invidious self-consumption, are ever satisfied.
	www.apaclassics.org /AnnualMeeting/99mtg/abstracts/Lewis.html (298 words)

	Erysichthon, murderer of trees (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Demeter's task was a sacred one, and all who tried to frustrate or destroy her work had to be punished severely; but the harshest punishment of all was dealt to Erysichthon, the king of Thessaly, the man who wantonly cut down trees.
		Erysichthon turned on the man in fury and killed him, shouting: "There, you dog, I'll teach you to warn me about Demeter!" And with these words he re-newed his attack upon the tree until it toppled beneath his blows and the dryad in it died.
		The dryad was to tell her that by Demeter's command she should go to Erysichthon and breathe her affliction into his body.
	www.sigmabooks.gr /pocketbooks/pocket_text/pocket_text_1En.htm (1058 words)

	Athens, Greek Mythology Link.
		He was a contemporary of the utterly impious Lycaon 2, who sacrificed a human baby on the altar of Zeus.
		Erysichthon 1 never inherited the kingdom as his father survived him.
		And he was childless, so Cranaus, another "son of the soil" [see AUTOCHTHONOUS] but in reality the most powerful of the Athenians, came to the throne, and it was during his reign that The Flood in the age of Deucalion 1 took place.
	homepage.mac.com /cparada/GML/Athens.html (1861 words)

	More on Demeter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Demeter herself has a gentle soul, and Erysichthon, son of Tropias was one of the few men with whom she ever dealt harshly.
		At the head of twenty companions, Erysichthon dared invade a grove which the Pelasgians had planted for her at Dotium, and began cutting down the sacred trees, to provide timber for his new banqueting hall.
		It was only when he treated her with his axe that she revealed herself in splendour and condemned him to suffer perpetual hunger, however much he might eat.
	hyper.vcsun.org /HyperNews/jhartzog/get/classics315/414.html (145 words)

	Of Greed and Measure by Mary Oak O'kane
		I am Metra, the daughter of Erysichthon, "Earth-tearer." I tell you this because it is his tearing I wish to mend, his greed and avarice I must redeem.
		But Erysichthon did not heed her, and heaved his ax even deeper into the body of the tree.
		But others were gripped with fear of Erysichthon himself upon whom they depended for their keep.
	www.spiritoftrees.org /folktales/okane/greed_measure.html (2639 words)

	The Tale of Erysichthon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Erysichthon (ur i sik' thon) was a vain and boastful man: He paid little attention to what other people said or thought.
		Erysichthon spent the entire day eating, yet he could not fill himself.
		Erysichthon ate all of the time, but still he starved.
	webschool.wash.k12.ut.us:16080 /reading/greek/erysichthon.html (641 words)

	The Wrath of Heaven
		Erysichthon was the father of Mestra, a girl who would later married Autolycus and become the mother of Anticleia.
		Erysichthon sold everything he had, for food, until he had nothing left but his daughter, Mestra.
		Driven by hunger, Erysichthon sold his daughter off in slavery, for a great deal of money to buy more food.
	www.timelessmyths.com /classical/wrath.html (7790 words)

	Erysichthon fallt mutwillig Baume (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Erysichthon fiel ihm ins Wort: “Behalte deinen Rat für dich, Alter, und denke nicht, daß dein weißes Haar dir Narrenfreiheit gibt.
		Sie solle sich auf Geheiß der Demeter zu Erysichthon begeben und ihm einen unstillbaren Heißhunger einhauchen.
		Erysichthon schlang die Speisen hinunter, ohne auch nur einen Augenblick innezuhalten, doch je mehr er aß, desto mehr plagte ihn der Hunger.
	www.sigmabooks.gr /pocketbooks/pocket_text/pocket_text_1Ge.htm (1161 words)

	Thespis-Internationales Monodrama Festival
		The story is inspired by the ancient myth of Erysichthon - an arrogant and impious man who dared to fell timber in the sacred grove of Demeter.
		As punishment, Ceres sent Famine to dwell in Erysichthon's entrails, so that he was continuously tormented by an insatiable hunger.
		He ate up all the food in sight, and sold all his possessions to buy more; still he was not satisfied.
	www.thespisfestival.de /2004/enggriech.htm (217 words)

	No title
		Hawthorne's brookside Oaks, with mossy roots, lichen-covered branches, and rocky Columbines, were the listeners and keepers of Hester's private drama and Pearl's cheerful play.
		Erysichthon was sumarily punished for this deed by the goddess Famine.
		Oak groves provide the backdrop for the knights in Geoffrey Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales," quietly absorbing the lovesick laments of lonely knights and beguiling them with garlands of their green leaves strung through the hair of the maidens of their desires.
	www.nwplantsart.com /Nativica%20Oak%20History.htm (380 words)

	Metamorphoses (Kline) 8, the Ovid Collection, Univ. of Virginia E-Text Center
		Erysichthon, it is said, once violated the grove of Ceres with an axe, and desecrated the ancient woods with iron.
		He, in sleep, in imagination, dreams of feasts, closes his mouth on vacancy, grinds tooth on tooth, exercises his gluttony on insubstantial food, and, instead of a banquet, fruitlessly eats the empty air.
		When her father realised that she could change her shape, he often surrendered Mestra to others, so that she, escaping in the form of a mare, or a bird, or again as a heifer or a hind, repeatedly obtained her price, dishonestly, for her gluttonous father.
	etext.lib.virginia.edu /latin/ovid/trans/Metamorph8.htm (8676 words)

	Erysichthon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Before boarding the slave ship that would take the girl to her new master, she prayed to the god of the sea, Poseidon, to save her from her fate.
		Erysichthon soon had more food than anyone could imagine, but with each bite, his hunger became increasingly worse until the money his daughter made was not enough to satisfy his needs.
		So finally one day, Erysichthon turned on his own body and ate his own flesh until he at last killed himself.
	www.davis.k12.ut.us /ffjh/Thompson/myths/EHMYTH20/ERYSICH.HTM (519 words)

	Demeter: Goddess of the Harvest
		Apparently Erysichthon was building a new banqueting hall, and hoping to find cheap wood.
		I would have flipped out, personally, but Demeter - the chill goddess that she was - merely took the form of Nicippe (that means Conquering Mare by the way), the priestess of the grove, and calmly ordered him to stop.
		At that, Erysichthon raised his axe and threatened to cut her down.
	www.paleothea.com /SortaSingles/Demeter.html (769 words)

	Oh no....The inside of Belmo's head...creeeeepy
		I have so much and it isn't enough for me. I have become the Erysichthon I have vowed never to become...
		Ok, to battle your "whatthefuckitude" about that one, Erysichthon was a character in classic Greek and Roman literature that was rich and powerful and did not respect the gods.
		He chops down some tree that held a forest spirit in it and this causes him to be punished by being infected by Famine, who instills an insatiable hunger in him and ultimately it kills him because he eats himself when there is nothing else to eat.
	belmonaut.diaryland.com /eatingout.html (294 words)

	Athens
		Cecrops was a peaceful king and was credited for the first progress of civilization in Attica : the building of cities, burial of the dead, and even sometimes the invention of writing.
		He married Aglaurus and had one son, Erysichthon and three daughters, one named Aglaurus after her mother, the two other ones named Herse and Pandrosus.
		Cranaus, who, succeeded Cecrops after his son Erysichthon had died, was said to be too a "son of the soil".
	plato-dialogues.org /tools/loc/athens.htm (5201 words)

	Abstract for APA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Callimachus' Erysichthon story (h.6.17-133), the first version to introduce tree-violation as Erysichthon's crime (Mackay, 1962, 15-19), is usually identified as Ovid's primary model (Hollis, 1970,129).
		There are, however, significant divergences between the Ovidian and the Callimachean stories; those of interest here are: (1) the tone; (2) the narrative focus; (3) the presentation of the crime; (4) the source of the punishment; and (5) the species of tree involved.
		The connections between the Apollonian and the Ovidian tree-violation stories reveal that Ovid has fused of both his Hellenistic sources, and that this fusion joins the conversation between Callimachus and Apollonius about divine justice, adding yet another perspective.
	www.apaclassics.org /AnnualMeeting/02mtg/abstracts/Murray.html (269 words)

	Demeter Being Cruel???? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		There was instance where the goddess proved to be cruel: A mortal named Erysichthon cut down an oak tree sacred to Demeter.
		In order to punish this profane act, the goddess sent endless famine to the poor man. As much as Erysichthon ate, so much he desired again.
		There was no satisfying him, and he ate constantly until at the end he ate himself and died.
	hyper.vcsun.org /HyperNews/jhartzog/get/classics315/686.html (74 words)

	Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, page 226 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		In various forms she continually got herself sold, and then returned to her father with the proceeds.
		At last Erysichthon was reduced to devouring his own limbs.
		Son of PSseidon (or, according to another account, of Butes) and Aphr5dite, who was worshipped on Eryx, a mountain in Sicily.
	www.ancientlibrary.com /seyffert/0229.html (533 words)

	UVM, Classics: Ambrose Collection
		Slide a11 Metamorphoses Bk VIII: 626-678 Baucis and Philemon, Amsterdam, 1703
		Slide a12 Metamorphoses Bk VIII: 739-822 Erysichthon and Tree, Solis
		Slide a14 Metamorphoses Bk VII: 297-349 Death of Pelias, Solis
	www.uvm.edu /~classics/mainpagelinks/ambrose.html (2746 words)

	Erysichthon Article, Erysichthon Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		He cut downtrees in a grove, sacred to Demeter.
		Mestrawas freed from slavery by Poseidon, who gave her the gift of shape-shifting toescape her bonds.
		We take no responsibility for the content, accuracy and use of this article.
	www.anoca.org /he/her/erysichthon.html (179 words)

	Metamorphoses
		In the story of Erysichthon, the use of a moaning person clothed head to toe in sheer brown clothing, clinging ceaselessly to Erysichthon’s back was an excellent depiction of insatiable hunger.
		The narrator comments that “...the godless are always hungry.” Later he sells his mother to a fisherman, and she is transformed into the young girl who used to play by Poseidon’s shores.
		The story of Myrrha, the young woman who is cursed to long for her own father after refusing to obey Aphrodite’s dictate to fall in love with one of her suitors, was absolutely creepy.
	www.othergods.org /NOG%20Imb03/metamorph.html (900 words)

	Greek Mythology: LIMUS / LIMOS Daimon God of Hunter, Famine & Starvation ( also Fames )
		Eyeing her from a distance, fearing to go closer, the Nympha gave her the goddess' orders and hardly waiting, though some way away, though just arrived, she felt, or seemed to feel, Hunger and seized the reins and soaring high she drove the Dracones back to Haemonia.
		Still gentle Somnus (Sleep) on wings of quietness soothed Erysichthon.
		In his sleep he dreamed of food and feasting, chewed and champed n nothing, wore tooth on tooth, stuffed down his cheated gullet imaginary food, and course on course devoured the empty air.
	www.theoi.com /Daimon/Limos.html (433 words)

	The Metamorphoses
		Lelex finished, and the tale and the teller of it had moved them all, Theseus particularly. He wished to hear more of the marvellous acts of the gods.
		Bk VIII:843-884 The fate of Erysichthon and his daughter Mestra
		Erysichthon began to tear at his limbs and gnaw them with his teeth, and the unhappy man fed, little by little, on his own body.’
	www.tkline.freeserve.co.uk /Metamorph8.htm (8589 words)

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