Editing Caeneus (section)

===Kingship===
Besides the [[Centauromachy]], little is said about Caeneus' activities after his transformation. According to Acusilaus, Caeneus was the strongest warrior of his day, and became king of the [[Lapiths]].<ref>[[Acusilaus]], [https://scholarlyeditions-brill-com.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/reader/urn:cts:greekLit:fgrh.0002.bnjo-3-tr1-eng:f22 fr. 22] {{harvnb|Toye}} [= [https://archive.org/details/early-greek-mythography-volume-1/page/n30/mode/1up fr. 22] {{harvnb|Fowler}} = [https://archive.org/details/ancillatopresocr0000diel/page/18/mode/2up fr. 40a] {{harvnb|Freeman}}]. The ''[[#CITEREFMost2018b|Shield of Heracles]]'', [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/hesiod-shield/2018/pb_LCL503.15.xml 178–190], also has Caeneus as king of the Lapiths.</ref> While king, Caeneus angered the gods by an act of impiety, although accounts differ; according to an ''[[Iliad]]'' [[scholia]]st, Caeneus set up his spear in the [[agora]] and ordered his subjects to worship it, while according to a scholiast on [[Apollonius of Rhodes]]' ''[[Argonautica]]'', Caeneus himself worshipped his spear rather than the gods. In either case, Caeneus' actions so offended the gods that, as Acusilaus goes on to say, Zeus sent the Centaurs against him.<ref>{{harvnb|Hard|2004|loc=[https://books.google.com/books?id=r1Y3xZWVlnIC&pg=PA557 p. 557]}}; {{harvnb|Fowler|2013|p=160}}; {{harvnb|Gantz|1996|p=281}}; {{harvnb|Apollodorus|loc=[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0548.tlg002.perseus-eng1:e.1.22 E.1.22, n. 1]}}; [[Acusilaus]], [https://scholarlyeditions-brill-com.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/reader/urn:cts:greekLit:fgrh.0002.bnjo-3-tr1-eng:f22 fr. 22] {{harvnb|Toye}} [= [https://archive.org/details/early-greek-mythography-volume-1/page/n30/mode/1up fr. 22] {{harvnb|Fowler}} = [https://archive.org/details/ancillatopresocr0000diel/page/18/mode/2up fr. 40a] {{harvnb|Freeman}}]; {{harvnb|Scholia D on Homer, ''Iliad''|loc=[https://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/5586/1/vanthiel.pdf#page=55 1.264]}}; {{harvnb|Scholia on Apollonius of Rhodes, ''Argonautica''|loc=[https://books.google.com/books?id=oBI-AAAAcAAJ&pg=PA347#v=onepage&q&f=false 1.57]}}.</ref> The [[Oxyrhynchus Papyrus]] that supplies Acusilaus' account says that Caeneus was used by [[Theophrastos]] as an example of ruling by the "spear" rather than the "scepter"—that is, by force rather than authority.{{sfn|Fowler|2013|p=160}}

Caeneus was also listed as among those who took part in the [[Calydonian boar hunt]] by the sixth-century BC Greek [[Greek lyric|lyric poet]] [[Stesichorus]],{{sfnm|Fowler|2013|1p=159|1loc=n. 27|Stesichorus, ''Boar-hunters''|2loc=[https://www.loebclassics.com/view/stesichorus_i-fragments/1991/pb_LCL476.135.xml fr. 222]}} as well as by the Roman poet [[Ovid]] and the Roman mythographer Hyginus, although no details of his participation are given.{{sfnm|1a1=Ovid, ''Metamorphoses''|1loc=[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=urn:cts:latinLit:phi0959.phi006.perseus-eng1:8.260-8.364 8.305]|2a1=Hyginus, ''Fabulae''|2loc=[https://topostext.org/work/206#173 173]}}