Editing Erymanthian boar (section)

==Mythology==
The fourth [[Labours of Heracles|labour of Heracles]] was to bring the Erymanthian boar alive to [[Eurystheus]] in [[Mycenae]].<ref name=":3" /> To capture the boar, Heracles first "chased the boar with shouts"<ref name=":4" /> and thereby routed it from a "certain thicket"<ref name=":4" /> and then "drove the exhausted animal into deep snow."<ref name=":4" /> He then "trapped it",<ref name=":4" /> bound it in chains,<ref name=":3" /> and lifted it, still "breathing from the dust",<ref name=":5">{{Cite book|title=Statius|publisher=William Heinemann Ltd.; G. P. Putnam's Sons|year=1928|volume=2|location=London; New York|pages=249|translator-last=Mozley|translator-first=J. H.|chapter=Thebaid, VIII. 731-760. 746 ff.|id=ark:/13960/t19k4m13k}}</ref> and returning with the boar on "his left shoulder",<ref name=":5" /> "staining his back with blood from the stricken wound",<ref name=":5" /> he cast it down in the "entrance to the assembly of the Mycenaeans",<ref name=":3" /> thus completing his fourth labour. "When the king [Eurystheus] saw him carrying the boar on his shoulders, he was terrified and hid himself in a bronze vessel."<ref>{{Cite book|title=Diodorus of Sicily|publisher=William Heinemann Ltd; Harvard University Press|year=1967|volume=2|location=London; Cambridge, Massachusetts|pages=381|translator-last=Oldfather|translator-first=C. H.|chapter=Book 4. 12. 1-2|id=ark:/13960/t7qn6bw6r|orig-year=1935}}</ref>

"The inhabitants of [[Cumae]], in the land of the [[Osci|Opici]], profess that the boar's tusks which are preserved in the sanctuary of [[Apollo]] at Cumae are the tusks of the Erymanthian boar, but the assertion is without a shred of probability."<ref name=":6">{{Cite book|title=Pausanias's Description of Greece|publisher=Macmillan and Co. Limited; The Macmillan Company|year=1898|location=London; New York|pages=402|translator-last=Frazer|translator-first=J. G.|chapter=Bk. VIII. Arcadia 24. 5-6|id=ark:/13960/t5t72bt15}}</ref>

In the primitive highlands of [[Arcadia (ancient region)|Arcadia]], where old practices lingered, the Erymanthian boar was a giant fear-inspiring creature of the wilds 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). A boar was a dangerous animal: "When the goddess turned a wrathful countenance upon a country, as in the story of [[Meleager]], she would send a raging boar, which laid waste the farmers' fields."<ref>Kerenyi (1959), p. 149.</ref>[[File:Hércules y el jabalí de Erimanto, por Zurbarán.jpg|thumb|right|''Heracles and the Erymanthian Boar'', by [[Francisco de Zurbarán]], 1634 ([[Museo del Prado]])]]