Unchanged by any teller — how the centuries since have seen Erysichthon.
In play
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Metamorphoses
Ovid
Ovid's Thessalian king fells Ceres' oak and receives Famine in his belly — Mestra sold for food until he consumes himself.
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Hymns (Callimachus)
Callimachus
Callimachus' Hymn to Demeter is the Hellenistic telling Ovid knew — sacrilege in the grove and hunger that beggars a house.
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Erysichthon of Thessaly
The earth-tearer king of Triopas' line — still the mythic emblem of appetite that no feast can satisfy.