Hylonome (; from ) 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",
within Nestor's narration of the Battle of the Lapiths and Centaurs in Met. 12.
Ovid, alludes to two didactic poems,
Lucretius'
De Rerum Natura
''De rerum natura'' (; ''On the Nature of Things'') is a first-century BC didactic poem by the Roman poet and philosopher Lucretius ( – c. 55 BC) with the goal of explaining Epicurean philosophy to a Roman audience. The poem, written in some 7 ...
and Ovid's own Ars Amatoria III. In the Cyllarus-Hylonome interlude he explores
hybridity Hybridity, in its most basic sense, refers to mixture. The term originates from biology and was subsequently employed in linguistics and in racial theory in the nineteenth century. Young, Robert. ''Colonial Desire: Hybridity in Theory, Culture and R ...
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".
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Citations
General references
* Publius Ovidius Naso, '' Metamorphoses'' translated by Brookes More (1859–1942). Boston, Cornhill Publishing Co. 1922
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
Centaurs
Characters in Greek mythology
Metamorphoses characters
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