Tags: Mythological Figure.
Hylonome was a female centaur in Greek mythology. She 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 within Nestor’s narration of the Battle of the Lapiths and Centaurs in Met. 12. Ovid alludes to two didactic poems Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura and Ovid’s own Ars Amatoria III.