- Information
- assigns Heracles his Labors
- Son of
- 👤 Antibia mother of Eurystheus👤 Nicippe (Argive) 👤 Sthenelos (Mycenaean)
- Father of
- 👤 Admete (Argive) 👤 Alexandros (Argive) 👤 Eurybios (Mycenaean) 👤 Iphimedon 👤 Mentor (Mycenaean) 👤 Perimedes (Mycenaean)
- Husband of
- 👤 Antimache
- Ruler of
- 🌍 Argos (city) 🌍 Mycenae (Argolid) 🌍 Tiryns (Argolid)
- Kills
- 👥 the Cattle of Geryon
- Dies at
- 🌍 Marathon (Attica) 🌍 the Megarid 🌍 the Rocks of Sceiron (Megarid)
- Killed by
- 👤 Hyllos (s. of Deianeira) 👤 Iolaos 👥 the Sons of Heracles
- Buried at
- 🌍 Gargettos (Attica) 🏛️ the Tomb of Eurystheus (Megarid) 🏛️ the Tomb of the Head of Eurystheus (Tricorynthos)
- Body parts
- 🏺 the Head of Eurystheus
- Depictions
- 🖌️ Attic Black-Figure Lekythos attributed to the Leagros Group, possibly the Acheloos Painter (Nicholson NM46.52)🖌️ Metopes of the Temple of Zeus at Olympia (Olympia East 1-6; West 1-6; LIMC Amazones 97)🖌️ Wall paintings from Pompeii (P-LOD r1-i6-p11-space-b)
- Related Entities
- 🌍 Abderia (Spain) 🌍 Ainos (Thrace) 🌍 Arcadia 🌍 Argos (city) 🌍 Asine (Argolid) 🌍 Asine (Messenia) 🌍 Athens (Attica) 🌍 Attica 🌍 Cleonai (Argolid) 🌍 Crete (island) 🌍 Erytheia (unlocatable) 🌍 Eryx (Sicily) 🌍 Gargettos (Attica) 🌍 Lerna (Argolid) 🌍 Ligystine (Spain) 🌍 Marathon (Attica) 🌍 Mount Erymanthos (Arcadia) 🌍 Mount Parnassos (Phocis) 🌍 Mycenae (Argolid) 🌍 Nemea (Argolid) 🌍 Pheneos (Arcadia) 🌍 Pherai (Thessaly) 🌍 Psophis (Arcadia) 🌍 Rhegion (Italy) 🌍 River Alpheios (Peloponnese) 🌍 River Anthemous (Chalcidice) 🌍 River Erymanthos (Elis/Arcadia) 🌍 River Istros (Europe) 🌍 River Ladon (Arcadia) 🌍 River Peneios (Elis) 🌍 River Strymon (Thrace) 🌍 River Styx (Underworld) 🌍 Sicily (island) 🌍 Spring and River Amymone (Argolid) 🌍 Stymphalos (Arcadia) 🌍 Tainaron (Laconia) 🌍 Tartessos (Spain) 🌍 Thasos (island) 🌍 Thebes (Boiotia) 🌍 Themiscyra (Pontos) 🌍 Thrace (N. Greece) 🌍 Tiryns (Argolid) 🌍 Torone (Chalcidice) 🌍 Trachis (Thessaly) 🌍 Tricarenia (rationalized) 🌍 Troizen (Argolid) 🌍 Troy (Troad) 🌍 the Garden of the Hesperides (unlocatable) 🌍 the Hellespont 🌍 the Ionian Sea 🌍 the Land of the Bistones (Thrace) 🌍 the Land of the Cicones (Thrace) 🌍 the Land of the Hyperboreans 🌍 the Megarid 🌍 the Oracle of Apollo (Delphi)🌍 the Rocks of Sceiron (Megarid)🌍 the Stymphalian Marshes (Arcadia) 🌍 the Tyrrhenian Sea 🌍 the Underworld 🏛️ the Cave at Tainaron (Tainaron) 🏛️ the Cave of the Nemean Lion (Argolid) 🏛️ the House of Admetos (Pherai)🏛️ the Stables of Augeias (Elis) 🏛️ the Tomb of Eurystheus (Megarid) 🏛️ the Tomb of the Head of Eurystheus (Tricorynthos) 🏺 the Bow of Heracles 🏺 the Bronze Rattle 🏺 the Club of Heracles 🏺 the Golden Apples of the Hesperides🏺 the Golden Cup of Helios 🏺 the Head of Eurystheus 🏺 the Jar of Eurystheus 🏺 the Sword of Heracles 🏺 the War-Belt of Hippolyte 👤 Admete (Argive) 👤 Alcmene 👤 Alexandros (Argive) 👤 Antibia mother of Eurystheus👤 Antimache 👤 Artemis 👤 Ate 👤 Athena 👤 Augeias (Elian) 👤 Cerberos (dog) 👤 Ceyx (Thessalian) 👤 Copreus 👤 Diomedes (Thracian) 👤 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 1-9📜 Anonymous, On Unbelievable Stories 5📜 Apollodoros, Library 2.4.12-2.5.1📜 Apollodoros, Library 2.4.5📜 Apollodoros, Library 2.5.1📜 Apollodoros, Library 2.5.10📜 Apollodoros, Library 2.5.11📜 Apollodoros, Library 2.5.12📜 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 2.8.1📜 Apollodoros, Library 3.9.2📜 D-Scholia, Iliad 11.698📜 D-Scholia, Iliad 19.119📜 D-Scholia, Iliad 8.368📜 Euripides, Alcestis 1117-1160📜 Euripides, Alcestis 476-506📜 Euripides, Alcestis 64-76📜 Hesiod, Ehoiai fr. 133 Most📜 Hesiod, Shield of Heracles 77-93📜 Homer, Iliad 15.630-15.652📜 Homer, Iliad 19.112-19.124📜 Homer, Iliad 19.95-19.124📜 Homer, Iliad 8.357-8.380📜 Homer, Odyssey 11.601-11.627📜 Lucian, Parliament of the Gods 7📜 Palaiphatos, On Unbelievable Stories 38📜 Palaiphatos, On Unbelievable Stories 39📜 Panyassis, Heracleia fr. 15 West📜 Pausanias 1.32.6📜 Pausanias 1.44.10📜 Pausanias 3.25.5-3.25.6📜 Pausanias 4.34.9-4.34.11📜 Pausanias 4.36.1-4.36.5📜 Pausanias 8.14.1-8.14.3📜 Pausanias 8.17.6-8.18.6📜 Pausanias 8.24.5📜 Pindar, Olympian 3 1-45📜 Pindar, Pythian 9 76-103📜 Pindar fr. 169a Snell-Maehler📜 Strabo 8.6.19📜 Vergil, Georgics 3.1-3.39
- Mentioned in Text
- Homeric Hymn 15 to HeraclesAnonymous, On Unbelievable StoriesApollodoros, LibraryD-Scholia, IliadEuripides, AlcestisHesiod, EhoiaiHesiod, Shield of HeraclesHomer, IliadHomer, OdysseyLucian, Parliament of the GodsPalaiphatos, On Unbelievable StoriesPanyassis, HeracleiaPausaniasPindar, Olympian 3Pindar, Pythian 9PindarStraboVergil, Georgics