Exadius
In Greek mythology, Exadius (Ancient Greek: Ἐξάδιος) was one of the Lapiths who attended the nuptial of their king Pirithous and his bride Hippodamia, and participated in the celebrated Centauromachy.[1]
Mythology
[edit]Exadius was a distinguished warrior during the contest between the Lapiths and the centaurs where he eventually killed the centaur Gyrneus.[2]
Exadius threatened, 'You shall not escape! Let me but have a weapon!' And with that, he whirled the antlers of a votive stag, which he found there, hung on a tall pine-tree; and with that double-branching horn he pierced the eyes of Gryneus, and he gouged them out. One eye stuck to the horn; the other rolled down on his beard, to which it strictly clung in dreadful clotted gore.
— Ovid, Metamorphoses, 12.265-270
References
[edit]- ^ Homer, Iliad 1.264; Hesiod, Shield of Heracles 180; Pausanias, 10.29.10; Ovid, Metamorphoses 12.266
- ^ Ovid, Metamorphoses 12.265-270