- Information
- assigns Heracles his Labors
- Son of
- 👤 Nicippe (Argive) 👤 Sthenelos (Mycenaean) 👤 Antibia
- Father of
- 👤 Admete (Argive) 👤 Alexandros (Argive) 👤 Eurybios (Mycenaean) 👤 Iphimedon 👤 Perimedes (Mycenaean) 👤 Mentor (Mycenaean)
- Husband of
- 👤 Antimache
- Ruler of
- 🌍 Mycenae (Argolid) 🌍 Argos (city) 🌍 Tiryns (Argolid) 🌍 the Argolid (Peloponnese)
- Kills
- 👥 the Cattle of Geryon
- Dies at
- 🌍 the Rocks of Sceiron (Megarid) 🌍 the Megarid 🌍 Marathon (Attica) 🌍 Attica
- Killed by
- 👤 Hyllos (s. of Deianeira) 👤 Iolaos 👥 the Sons of Heracles
- Buried at
- 🏛️ the Tomb of Eurystheus (Megarid) 🌍 Gargettos (Attica) 🏛️ the Tomb of the Head of Eurystheus (Tricorynthos)
- Body parts
- 🏺 the Head of Eurystheus
- Related Entities
- 👤 Admete (Argive) 👤 Alcmene 👤 Alexandros (Argive) 👤 Antimache 👤 Artemis 👤 Athena 👤 Augeias (Elian) 👥 the Centaurs 👤 Cerberos (dog) 👤 the Cerynitian Deer 👤 Ceyx (Thessalian) 👤 Copreus 👤 the Cretan Bull 👤 Demophon (Athenian) 👤 Eileithyia 👤 the Erymanthian Boar 👤 Eurybios (Mycenaean) 👤 Hera 👤 Zeus 👤 Geryon 🌍 the Underworld 👤 Heracles 👤 Hermes 👥 the Hesperides 👤 Hippolyte (Amazon I) 👤 Hyllos (s. of Deianeira) 👤 Iolaos 👤 Iphimedon 🌍 the Rocks of Sceiron (Megarid) 🌍 the Megarid 🌍 Athens (Attica) 🌍 Crete (island) 👤 Theseus 👤 Iphicles 👤 Perimedes (Mycenaean) 👥 the Mares of Diomedes 👤 Mentor (Mycenaean) 👤 Minos 👤 the Nemean Lion 👤 Nicippe (Argive) 🌍 Marathon (Attica) 👤 Sthenelos (Mycenaean) 👥 the Stymphalian Birds 🏺 the War-Belt of Hippolyte 🏺 the Sword of Heracles 🏺 the Bow of Heracles 🏺 the Club of Heracles 🏺 the Golden Cup of Helios 👥 the Cattle of Geryon 🌍 Mycenae (Argolid) 🌍 Troy (Troad) 🏺 the Golden Apples of the Hesperides 🌍 Thrace (N. Greece) 🌍 the Land of the Cicones (Thrace) 🌍 Argos (city) 🌍 Arcadia 🌍 Pherai (Thessaly) 🌍 the Ionian Sea 🌍 Lerna (Argolid) 🌍 Tiryns (Argolid) 🌍 Thebes (Boiotia) 🌍 Attica 🌍 Nemea (Argolid) 🌍 Cleonai (Argolid) 🌍 River Ladon (Arcadia) 🌍 Psophis (Arcadia) 🌍 Mount Erymanthos (Arcadia) 🌍 River Alpheios (Peloponnese) 🌍 River Peneios (Elis) 🌍 Stymphalos (Arcadia) 🌍 Themiscyra (Pontos) 🌍 Ainos (Thrace) 🌍 Thasos (island) 🌍 Torone (Chalcidice) 🌍 Erytheia (unlocatable) 🌍 Tartessos (Spain) 🌍 Abderia (Spain) 🌍 Ligystine (Spain) 🌍 River Anthemous (Chalcidice) 🌍 Rhegion (Italy) 🌍 Sicily (island) 🌍 the Hellespont 🌍 River Strymon (Thrace) 🌍 Tainaron (Laconia) 🌍 Troizen (Argolid) 🌍 Trachis (Thessaly) 🌍 River Styx (Underworld) 🌍 the Tyrrhenian Sea 🌍 the Land of the Hyperboreans 🌍 Mount Parnassos (Phocis) 🌍 the Argolid (Peloponnese) 👤 the Hydra 👤 the Lernaian Crab 👥 the Cattle of Augeias 🏛️ the Stables of Augeias (Elis) 🏺 the Bronze Rattle 🌍 the Stymphalian Marshes (Arcadia) 👤 Diomedes (Thracian) 🌍 the Land of the Bistones (Thrace) 🌍 Eryx (Sicily) 🌍 the Garden of the Hesperides (unlocatable) 🏛️ the Cave of the Nemean Lion (Argolid) 🌍 Asine (Argolid) 🌍 Pheneos (Arcadia) 👤 Ate 🌍 River Istros (Europe) 👤 Macaria (Heraclid) 👥 the Dryopes 👥 the Sons of Heracles 🌍 the Oracle of Apollo at Delphi 🌍 Spring and River Amymone (Argolid) 🏛️ the Tomb of Eurystheus (Megarid) 🌍 River Erymanthos (Elis/Arcadia) 🌍 Gargettos (Attica) 🏛️ the House of Admetos (Pherai) 🌍 Tricarenia (rationalized) 👤 Molossos (rationalized) 🏺 the Jar of Eurystheus 🏛️ the Cave at Tainaron (Tainaron) 🌍 Tetrapolis (Attica) 🏺 the Head of Eurystheus 🏛️ the Tomb of the Head of Eurystheus (Tricorynthos) 👤 Antibia
- Mentioned by
- 📖 Apollodoros, Library 2.4.5 📖 Apollodoros, Library 2.5.1 📖 Apollodoros, Library 2.5.2 📖 Apollodoros, Library 2.5.3 📖 Apollodoros, Library 2.5.4 📖 Apollodoros, Library 2.5.5 📖 Apollodoros, Library 2.5.6 📖 Apollodoros, Library 2.5.7 📖 Apollodoros, Library 2.5.8 📖 Apollodoros, Library 2.5.9 📖 Apollodoros, Library 2.5.10 📖 Apollodoros, Library 2.5.11 📖 Apollodoros, Library 2.5.12 📖 Apollodoros, Library 2.8.1 📖 Apollodoros, Library 3.9.2 📖 Pausanias 1.32.6 📖 Pausanias 1.44.10 📖 Pausanias 8.24.5 📖 Homer, Odyssey 11.601-11.627 📖 Homeric Hymn 15 to Heracles 1-9 📖 Hesiod, Shield of Heracles 77-93 📖 Euripides, Alcestis 64-76 📖 Euripides, Alcestis 476-506 📖 Euripides, Alcestis 1117-1160 📖 Homer, Iliad 8.357-8.380 📖 Homer, Iliad 15.630-15.652 📖 Homer, Iliad 19.95-19.124 📖 Homer, Iliad 19.112-19.124 📖 Pausanias 4.34.9-4.34.11 📖 Pausanias 4.36.1-4.36.5 📖 Pausanias 3.25.5-3.25.6 📖 Pausanias 8.14.1-8.14.3 📖 Pausanias 8.17.6-8.18.6 📖 Apollodoros, Library 2.4.12-2.5.1 📖 Hesiod, Ehoiai fr. 133 Most 📖 Panyassis, Heracleia fr. 15 West 📖 Palaiphatos, On Unbelievable Stories 38 📖 Palaiphatos, On Unbelievable Stories 39 📖 Anonymous, On Unbelievable Stories 5 📖 Lucian, Parliament of the Gods 7 📖 Lucian, Zeus Rants 21 📖 Callimachus, Aetia fr. 77c Harder 📖 Pindar, Olympian 3 1-45 📖 Pindar, Pythian 9 76-103 📖 Pindar fr. 169a Snell-Maehler 📖 D-Scholia, Iliad 8.368 📖 Strabo 8.6.19 📖 D-Scholia, Iliad 11.698 📖 D-Scholia, Iliad 19.119 📖 Vergil, Georgics 3.1-3.39 📖 Scholia on Callimachus, Aetia fr. 23a-c Harder 📖 Antoninus Liberalis, Metamorphoses 33
- Mentioned in Text
- Apollodoros, Library Homer, Iliad Homer, Odyssey Pausanias Pindar Euripides, Alcestis Homeric Hymn 15 to Heracles Hesiod, Shield of Heracles Hesiod, Ehoiai Strabo Panyassis, Heracleia Palaiphatos, On Unbelievable Stories Anonymous, On Unbelievable Stories Callimachus, Aetia Lucian, Parliament of the Gods Lucian, Zeus Rants Scholia on Callimachus, Aetia Pindar, Olympian 3 Pindar, Pythian 9 Antoninus Liberalis, Metamorphoses D-Scholia, Iliad Vergil, Georgics
- Mentioned in citation of
- 📖 Hecataios of Miletos fr. 27a Fowler 📖 Homer, Iliad 8.357-8.380 📖 Callimachus, Aetia fr. 23 Harder 📖 Callimachus, Aetia fr. 77c Harder 📖 Rhianos fr. 9 Powell 📖 Pherecydes of Athens fr. 84 Fowler
- Depictions
- 🎨 Metopes of the Temple of Zeus at Olympia (Olympia East 1-6; West 1-6; LIMC Amazones 97) 🎨 Attic Black-Figure Lekythos attributed to the Leagros Group, possibly the Acheloos Painter (Nicholson NM46.52) 🎨 Wall Paintings from Casa dei Quadretti Teatrali I 6, 11, Pompeii (PALP r1-i6-p11-space-b) 🎨 Wall painting from the Basilica at Herculaneum (MANN 9006; LIMC Herakles 2159) 🎨 Wall Paintings from Casa del Centenario IX 8, 3.7, Pompeii (PALP r9-i8-p3-space-2) 🎨 Fragment of Bronze Shieldband from Olympia (Olympia E161) 🎨 Fragments of Bronze Shieldband from Olympia (Olympia B1685; LIMC Herakles 2136)
- Relevant to local traditions reported from
- 🌍 Asine (Messenia)