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He was also one of the heroes of the Argonautic expedition and of an expedition against the Amazons, or nation of women warriors; he fought with and killed a series of famous robbers; and he rid the world of a number of ravaging beasts, the Calydonian boar, the Crommyonian sow, and the Marathonian bull, the monster which had slain the son of Minos.
The Crommyonian sow, which they called Phaea, was a savage and formidable wild beast, by no means an enemy to be despised.
Upon the first the hero is represented destroying the King of Thebes, Creon; upon the second he is throwing Cercyon, King of Eleusis; and upon the third he is overcoming the Crommyonian sow. "About this time," Plutarch tells us, "Crommyon was infested with a wild sow named Phoeä, a fierce and formidable creature.
The Crommyonian sow, which they called Phaea, was a savage and formidable wild beast, by no means an enemy to be despised.
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