TheCrommyonian Sow (Ancient Greek:Ὕς ΚρομμύωνHus Krommúōn) is apig inGreek mythology. It was owned by a woman namedPhaea (ΦαιάPhaiā́, "grey") and was sometimes called by that name itself.^[1][2]

The Crommyonian Sow was awild pig that ravaged the region around the village ofCrommyon betweenMegara andCorinth, and was eventually slain byTheseus in his early adventures. According to theBibliotheca of Pseudo-Apollodorus, it was said by some to be the daughter ofEchidna andTyphon, and was named after the old woman who raised it.^[3] According toStrabo, the sow was said to be the mother of theCalydonian Boar.^[4]Gaius Julius Hyginus says that the pig Theseus killed at Crommyon was a boar.^[5]

Plutarch repeats the story, but states that he had also been told that Phaia herself was a murderous femalerobber, and was nicknamed "Sow" because of her obese children and uncouth manners, and that she was the "sow" killed by Theseus.

• Pseudo-Apollodorus,Apollodorus, The Library, with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921
• Hyginus, Gaius Julius,The Myths of Hyginus. Edited and translated by Mary A. Grant, Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 1960.
• Smith, William;Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London (1873)."Phaea"
• Strabo,Geography, Editors, H.C. Hamilton, Esq., W. Falconer, M.A., London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.Online version at the Perseus Digital Library

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• The Theoi Project, "HUS KROMMYON"

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