{{Short description|Female centaur in Greek mythology}} {{About|the mythological creature|the minor planet|10370 Hylonome}}
thumb | right | alt=Centaury. Roman floor mosaic at the Bardo Museum in Tunis. 2nd century A.D. | Centaury. Roman floor mosaic at the Bardo Museum in Tunis. 2nd century A.D. '''Hylonome''' ({{IPAc-en|h|aɪ|ˈ|l|ɒ|n|ə|m|iː}}; from {{Langx|grc|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",<ref name=name>{{cite journal |last=Debrohun |first=Jeri Blair |date=Fall 2004 |title=Centaurs in Love and War: Cyllarus and Hylonome in Ovid 'Metamporphoses' 12.393–428 |journal=American Journal of Philology |volume=125 |issue=3 (whole number 499) | pages=417–452 |publisher=The Johns Hopkins University Press |doi=10.1353/ajp.2004.0025 |issn=0002-9475 |jstor=1562172|s2cid=162390806 }}</ref> is placed 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".<ref name=name/>
== Citations == {{reflist}}
== General and cited references == * Publius Ovidius Naso (1922). ''Metamorphoses''. Translated by Brookes More. Boston: Cornhill Publishing Co. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.02.0028 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library]. * Publius Ovidius Naso, ''Metamorphoses''. Hugo Magnus. Gotha, Germany. Friedr. Andr. Perthes. 1892. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.02.0029 Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library].
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