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👤 Eurystheus

  • Information:
    assigns Heracles his Labors
  • Son of:
    👤 Nicippe (Argive) 👤 Sthenelos (Mycenaean)
  • Father of:
    👤 Admete (Argive) 👤 Alexandros (Argive) 👤 Eurybios (Mycenaean) 👤 Iphimedon 👤 Mentor (Mycenaean) 👤 Perimedes (Mycenaean)
  • Husband of:
    👤 Antimache
  • Ruler of:
    🌍 Mycenae (Argolid)
  • Kills:
    👥 the Cattle of Geryon
  • Dies at:
    🌍 Megarid 🌍 Sceironian Cliffs (Megarid)
  • Killed by:
    👤 Hyllos (s. of Deianeira) 👤 Iolaos
  • Related Entities:
    🌍 Abderia (Spain) 🌍 Ainos (Thrace) 🌍 Arcadia 🌍 Asine (Argolid) 🌍 Asine (Messenia) 🌍 Athens (Attica) 🌍 Attica 🌍 Bistones (Thrace) 🌍 Cleonai (Argolid) 🌍 Crete (island) 🌍 Erytheia (city) 🌍 Eryx (Sicily) 🌍 Lerna (Argolid) 🌍 Ligystine (Spain) 🌍 Megarid 🌍 Mount Erymanthos (Arcadia) 🌍 Mount Parnassos (Phocis)🌍 Mycenae (Argolid) 🌍 Nemea (Argolid) 🌍 Pheneos (Arcadia) 🌍 Psophis (Arcadia) 🌍 Rhegion (Italy) 🌍 River Alpheios (Peloponnese) 🌍 River Anthemous (Chalcidice)🌍 River Erymanthos (Elis/Arcadia)🌍 River Ladon (Arcadia) 🌍 River Peneios (Elis) 🌍 River Strymon (Thrace) 🌍 River Styx (Underworld) 🌍 Sceironian Cliffs (Megarid)🌍 Sicily 🌍 Stymphalos (Arcadia) 🌍 Tainaron (Laconia) 🌍 Tartessos (Spain) 🌍 Thasos (island) 🌍 Thebes (Boiotia) 🌍 Themiscyra 🌍 Thrace (N. Greece) 🌍 Tiryns (Argolid) 🌍 Torone (Chalcidice) 🌍 Trachis (Thessaly) 🌍 Tricarenia (rationalized) 🌍 Troizen (Argolid) 🌍 Troy 🌍 the Garden of the Hesperides 🌍 the Hellespont 🌍 the Ionian Sea 🌍 the Oracle of Apollo (Delphi)🌍 the Stymphalian Marshes (Arcadia) 🌍 the Tyrrhenian Sea 🌍 the Underworld 🏛️ the Cave of the Nemean Lion (Argolid) 🏛️ the Springs of Amymone (Argolid) 🏛️ the Stables of Augeias (Elis) 🏺 the Bow of Heracles 🏺 the Bronze Castanets of Hephaistos🏺 the Club of Heracles 🏺 the Golden Apples of the Hesperides🏺 the Golden Cup of Helios 🏺 the Sword of Heracles 🏺 the War-Belt of Hippolyte 👤 Admete (Argive) 👤 Alcmene 👤 Alexandros (Argive) 👤 Antimache 👤 Ate 👤 Athena 👤 Augeias (Elian) 👤 Cerberos (dog) 👤 Ceyx (Thessalian) 👤 Copreus 👤 Eileithyia 👤 Eurybios (Mycenaean) 👤 Geryon 👤 Hera 👤 Heracles 👤 Hermes 👤 Hippolyte (Amazon I) 👤 Hyllos (s. of Deianeira) 👤 Iolaos 👤 Iphicles 👤 Iphimedon 👤 Macaria (Heraclid) 👤 Mentor (Mycenaean) 👤 Minos 👤 Molossos (rationalized) 👤 Nicippe (Argive) 👤 Perimedes (Mycenaean) 👤 Sthenelos (Mycenaean) 👤 Theseus 👤 Zeus 👤 the Cerynitian Deer 👤 the Cretan Bull 👤 the Erymanthian Boar 👤 the Hydra 👤 the Lernaian Crab 👤 the Nemean Lion 👥 the Cattle of Augeias👥 the Cattle of Geryon 👥 the Children of Heracles sought by Eurystheus 👥 the Dryopes 👥 the Hesperides 👥 the Mares of Diomedes 👥 the Sons of Heracles 👥 the Stymphalian Birds
  • Appears in:
    Homeric Hymn 15 to Heracles 1-9Anonymous, On Unbelievable Stories 5Apollodoros, Library 2.4.12-2.5.1Apollodoros, Library 2.4.5Apollodoros, Library 2.5.1Apollodoros, Library 2.5.10Apollodoros, Library 2.5.11Apollodoros, Library 2.5.12Apollodoros, Library 2.5.2Apollodoros, Library 2.5.3Apollodoros, Library 2.5.4Apollodoros, Library 2.5.5Apollodoros, Library 2.5.6Apollodoros, Library 2.5.7Apollodoros, Library 2.5.8Apollodoros, Library 2.5.9Apollodoros, Library 2.8.1Apollodoros, Library 3.9.2Hesiod, Shield of Heracles 77-93Homer, Iliad 15.630-15.652Homer, Iliad 19.112-19.124Homer, Iliad 19.95-19.124Homer, Iliad 8.357-8.380Homer, Odyssey 11.601-11.627Palaiphatos, On Unbelievable Stories 38Palaiphatos, On Unbelievable Stories 39Panyassis, Heracleia fr. 15 WestPausanias 1.32.6Pausanias 1.44.10Pausanias 3.25.5-3.25.6Pausanias 4.34.9-4.34.11Pausanias 4.36.1-4.36.5Pausanias 8.14.1-8.14.3Pausanias 8.17.6-8.18.6Pausanias 8.24.5
  • Mentioned in Text:
    Homeric Hymn 15 to HeraclesAnonymous, On Unbelievable StoriesApollodoros, LibraryHesiod, Shield of HeraclesHomer, IliadHomer, OdysseyPalaiphatos, On Unbelievable StoriesPanyassis, HeracleiaPausanias
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