Erymanthian boar
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In Greek mythology, the Erymanthian boar was a mythical creature that took the form of a "shaggy and wild" "tameless" "boar" "of vast weight" "and foaming jaws". It was a Tegeaean, Maenalusian or Erym
Heracles and the Erymanthian Boar, by Francisco de Zurbarán, 1634 (Museo del Prado)
Labours of Hercules
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The Labours of Hercules or Labours of Heracles are a series of tasks carried out by Heracles, the greatest of the Greek heroes, whose name was later romanised as Hercules. They were accomplished in th
Roman relief (3rd century AD) depicting a sequence of the Labours, representing from left to right the Nemean lion, the Lernaean Hydra, the Erymanthian Boar, the Ceryneian Hind, the Stymphalian birds, the Girdle of Hippolyta, the Augean stables, the Cretan Bull and the Mares of Diomedes
Roman mosaic (3rd century CE) showing the Twelve Labours from Llíria (Valencia, Spain). Now in the Museo Arqueológico Nacional.
The Heracles Papyrus, a fragment of a 3rd-century CE Greek manuscript of a poem about the Labours of Heracles (Oxyrhynchus Papyrus 2331)
The Origin of the Milky Way by Jacopo Tintoretto, 1575