Sybaris (mythology)

Sybaris is a female monster in Greek mythology.

According to a surviving from the Greek mythographers Antoninus Liberalis transformation Sage also Lamia called Sybaris lived in a large cave of belonging to the southern foothills of Parnassos mountain Cirphis, which located near the in the southwestern Phocis and was a port town of Delphi performing settlement Krisa. The monster devouring people and livestock and devastated the whole area regularly. When the Delphian oracle asked her for advice, they received for answer, that they would have to sacrifice one of their young men to the monster in order to be exempt from its ravages. This was by lot Alkyoneus, the only son of Diomos and Meganeira, select. He was decorated with a wreath made ​​by the priests to the cave of Sybaris. But on the way there met Alkyoneus by divine providence the hero Eurybatos, son of Euphemos, a descendant of the river god Axios. Touched by the beauty of the victim, Eurybatos decided to save the boy. He took the victim designating ring and let her lead instead of Alkyoneus to the cave. Then he fought the beast successfully and crashed it down the rocks. At the place where it hit, was a spring that was called Sybaris. The city, located in Lucania ( Southern Italy) Sybaris said to have received its name from the monster.