Unchanged by any teller — how the centuries since have seen Eurytion.
The gallery
The Centaur Eurytion Carrying Off a Lapith Woman
Unknown (after classical models), 19th century
Print after the Centauromachy type: Eurytion, wine-maddened at Peirithous' wedding, seizes a Lapith bride — the outrage that opens the battle of Lapiths and Centaurs. The named Thessalian centaur becomes the emblem of the feast gone violent.
West Pediment of the Temple of Zeus at Olympia (Centauromachy)
Workshop of Olympia (trad. Alcamenes), c. 470–456 BC
The Olympia west pediment stages the Lapith wedding brawl under Apollo's calm gaze. Ancient and modern viewers identify the central centaur assaulting the bride with Eurytion — the guest who broke xenia and started the Centauromachy in stone.
In play
Metamorphoses
Ovid
Ovid's Centauromachy (as Eurytus/Eurytion) retells the drunken seizure at Peirithous' feast — the Thessalian centaur as first offender of the Lapith wedding.
Eurytion
Thessalian centaur of Peirithous' wedding — distinct from the Phthian king and from Geryon's herdsman of the same name.