Hylonome
Hylonome (/haɪˈlɒnəmiː/; from Ancient Greek: Ὑλονόμη) was a female centaur in Greek mythology.
Mythology
Hylonome was present at the battle against the Lapiths, where she lost her husband, the centaur Cyllarus, whom she loved very much. Heartbroken, she then took her own life to join him.
The centaur lovers' episodic digression and their "ideally mutual relationship",[1] within Nestor's narration of the Battle of the Lapiths and Centaurs in Metamorphosis 12. Ovid alludes to two didactic poems, Lucretius' "De Rerum Natura" and Ovid's own "Ars Amatoria III". In the Cyllarus-Hylonome interlude he explores hybridity itself illustrating the relationships and "possible combinations of a number of conceptual opposites: natura and cultus, human and animal, male and female, love and war, and the contrasting values of lyric-elegiac and epic poetry".[1]
Citations
- ^ a b Debrohun, Jeri Blair (Fall 2004). "Centaurs in Love and War: Cyllarus and Hylonome in Ovid 'Metamporphoses' 12.393–428". American Journal of Philology. 125 (3 (whole number 499)). The Johns Hopkins University Press: 417–452. doi:10.1353/ajp.2004.0025. ISSN 0002-9475. JSTOR 1562172. S2CID 162390806.
General and cited references
- Publius Ovidius Naso (1922). Metamorphoses. Translated by Brookes More. Boston: Cornhill Publishing Co. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Publius Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses. Hugo Magnus. Gotha, Germany. Friedr. Andr. Perthes. 1892. Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library.