CROWELL'S HANDBOOK OF CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY1970 |
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... Eurystheus . A king of Mycenae and Tiryns . Eurystheus is remembered not for his own accomplishments , but for his lifelong persecution of HERACLES . He was a son of Perseus ' son Sthenelus and of Nicippe , a daughter of Pelops ...
... Eurystheus . A king of Mycenae and Tiryns . Eurystheus is remembered not for his own accomplishments , but for his lifelong persecution of HERACLES . He was a son of Perseus ' son Sthenelus and of Nicippe , a daughter of Pelops ...
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... Eurystheus refused to admit this as one of the ten labors , for Heracles had been unable to kill the Hydra alone . [ Apollodorus 2.5.1-2 ; Hesiod , Theogony , 313-318 ; Hyginus , Fabulae , 30 , and Poetica As- tronomica , 2.23-24 . ] E ...
... Eurystheus refused to admit this as one of the ten labors , for Heracles had been unable to kill the Hydra alone . [ Apollodorus 2.5.1-2 ; Hesiod , Theogony , 313-318 ; Hyginus , Fabulae , 30 , and Poetica As- tronomica , 2.23-24 . ] E ...
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... Eurystheus ' sons . Either Iolaus or Heracles ' son Hyllus pursued Eurystheus as far as the Scei- ronian Rocks on the Isthmus of Corinth and there killed or captured him . Ac- cording to some accounts , Eurystheus ' body was buried on ...
... Eurystheus ' sons . Either Iolaus or Heracles ' son Hyllus pursued Eurystheus as far as the Scei- ronian Rocks on the Isthmus of Corinth and there killed or captured him . Ac- cording to some accounts , Eurystheus ' body was buried on ...
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