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ID: 901002552
Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ia/901002552
Record Type: Event/Narrative

Heracles and the Erymanthian Boar (Greco-Roman narrative)

Note: The fourth labor of Hercules, Eurystheus ordered Heracles to bring him the live boar that lived on mount Erymanthus. The boar was fiercely aggressive and deadly.

Names:
Heracles and the Erymanthian Boar (Greco-Roman narrative) (preferred,English-P,D)
Hercules and Erymanthian Boar (Greco-Roman narrative) (English)

Hierarchical Position:
Legend, Religion, Mythology (P)
....<Greek iconography> (P)
........<Greek narratives> (P)
............Story of Heracles (Greco-Roman narratives) (I)
................Heracles and the Erymanthian Boar (Greco-Roman narrative) (I)
Related Iconography:
actor is .... Heracles
..........(Legend, Religion, Mythology, Greek iconography, Greek characters, Heracles (Greco-Roman character)) [901000042]
actor is .... Erymanthian Boar
..........(Legend, Religion, Mythology, Greek iconography, Greek characters, Erymanthian Boar (Greco-Roman character)) [901002553]

Other Relationships:
role/characteristic is .... narrative (literary works)
.....(genres for literature, genres in literature and performing arts, concepts in the arts and humanities, Associated Concepts (hierarchy name)) (AAT)

Sources:
Heracles and the Erymanthian Boar (Greco-Roman narrative)
................Grant and Hazel, Who's Who in Classical Mythology (1993)
Hercules and Erymanthian Boar (Greco-Roman narrative)
................Grant and Hazel, Who's Who in Classical Mythology (1993)
Iconography Record Sources:
................ Iconclass Illustrated Edition (2022-) 94L324
................ Grant and Hazel, Who's Who in Classical Mythology (1993)

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