# Hylonome

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{{Short description|Female centaur in Greek mythology}}
{{About|the mythological creature|the [minor planet](/source/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](/source/Centaurides) in [Greek mythology](/source/Greek_mythology).

== Mythology ==
Hylonome was present at the battle against the [Lapiths](/source/Lapiths), where she lost her husband, the centaur [Cyllarus](/source/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](/source/Ovid) alludes to two didactic poems, [Lucretius](/source/Lucretius)' "[De Rerum Natura](/source/De_Rerum_Natura)" and Ovid's own "Ars Amatoria III". In the Cyllarus-Hylonome interlude he explores [hybridity](/source/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](/source/epic_poetry)".<ref name=name/>

== Citations ==
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== General and cited references ==
* [Publius Ovidius Naso](/source/Ovid) (1922). ''[Metamorphoses](/source/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].

Category:Individual centaurs
Category:Characters in Greek mythology
Category:Metamorphoses characters

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