Hylonome

Hylonome appears in the mythic episode of the Centaurs' battle with the Lapiths. The primary surviving account of her as an individual character is placed in Ovid's Metamorphoses (Book 12) within Nestor's narration of that battle. She is presented as the wife/lover of the centaur Cyllarus; when Cyllarus dies in the fighting, Hylonome, stricken with grief, takes her own life to join him.

Attested sources identify Hylonome as a female centaur, i.e., a hybrid being with the upper body of a human woman combined with the lower body of a horse. The supplied materials do not record further descriptive details such as coloration, clothing, or distinguishing marks.

No personal supernatural powers or special abilities are recorded for Hylonome in the provided sources. Her attested behavior is participation in the Centaurs–Lapiths battle (as narrated in Ovid's Metamorphoses) and, after the death of her husband Cyllarus, suicide motivated by grief and devotion. Literary accounts use her episode to explore themes of hybridity and the juxtaposition of opposites (human/animal, love/war).