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.IPA-label-small{font-size:85%}.mw-parser-output .references .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .infobox .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .navbox .IPA-label-small{font-size:100%}</style><span class="IPA-label IPA-label-small">IPA:</span> <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="el-Latn-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/Greek" title="Help:IPA/Greek">[eu̯rystʰěu̯s]</a></span>) was king of <a href="/wiki/Tiryns" title="Tiryns">Tiryns</a>, one of three <a href="/wiki/Mycenaean_Greece" title="Mycenaean Greece">Mycenaean</a> strongholds in the <a href="/wiki/Argolid" class="mw-redirect" title="Argolid">Argolid</a>, although other authors including <a href="/wiki/Homer" title="Homer">Homer</a> and <a href="/wiki/Euripides" title="Euripides">Euripides</a> cast him as ruler of <a href="/wiki/Argos,_Peloponnese" title="Argos, Peloponnese">Argos</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Family">Family</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Eurystheus&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Family"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Eurystheus was the son of King <a href="/wiki/Sthenelus_of_Mycenae" class="mw-redirect" title="Sthenelus of Mycenae">Sthenelus</a> and <a href="/wiki/Nicippe" title="Nicippe">Nicippe</a> (also called <a href="/w/index.php?title=Antibia&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Antibia (page does not exist)">Antibia</a><sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> or <a href="/wiki/Archippe" class="mw-redirect" title="Archippe">Archippe</a><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>), and he was a grandson of the hero <a href="/wiki/Perseus_(mythology)" class="mw-redirect" title="Perseus (mythology)">Perseus</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His sisters were <a href="/wiki/Alcyone_(mythology)" title="Alcyone (mythology)">Alcyone</a> and <a href="/wiki/Medusa_(Greek_myth)" title="Medusa (Greek myth)">Medusa</a> (<a href="/wiki/Astymedusa" title="Astymedusa">Astymedusa</a>). </p><p>Eurystheus married <a href="/wiki/Antimache" title="Antimache">Antimache</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> daughter of <a href="/wiki/Amphidamas" title="Amphidamas">Amphidamas</a> of <a href="/wiki/Arcadia_(region)" title="Arcadia (region)">Arcadia</a>. Their children were <a href="/wiki/Admete" title="Admete">Admete</a>, <a href="/wiki/Alexander_(mythology)" title="Alexander (mythology)">Alexander</a>, <a href="/wiki/Eurybius" title="Eurybius">Eurybius</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mentor_(Greek_myth)" title="Mentor (Greek myth)">Mentor</a>, <a href="/wiki/Perimedes" title="Perimedes">Perimedes</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-Apollodorus,_2.8.1_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Apollodorus,_2.8.1-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/w/index.php?title=Iphimedon&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Iphimedon (page does not exist)">Iphimedon</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/Eurypylus" title="Eurypylus">Eurypylus</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Mythology">Mythology</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Eurystheus&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Mythology"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Labours_of_Heracles">Labours of Heracles</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Eurystheus&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Labours of Heracles"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Labours_of_Hercules" title="Labours of Hercules">Labours of Hercules</a></div> <p>In the contest of wills between <a href="/wiki/Hera" title="Hera">Hera</a> and <a href="/wiki/Zeus" title="Zeus">Zeus</a> over whose candidate would be <a href="/wiki/Greek_hero" class="mw-redirect" title="Greek hero">hero</a>, fated to defeat the remaining creatures representing an old order and bring about the reign of the <a href="/wiki/Twelve_Olympians" title="Twelve Olympians">Twelve Olympians</a>, Eurystheus was Hera's candidate and <a href="/wiki/Heracles" title="Heracles">Heracles</a>—though his name implies that at one archaic stage of myth-making he had carried "Hera's fame"—was the candidate of Zeus.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The arena for the actions that would bring about this deep change are the <a href="/wiki/Twelve_Labors" class="mw-redirect" title="Twelve Labors">Twelve Labors</a> imposed on Heracles by Eurystheus. The immediate necessity for the Labours of Heracles is as penance for Heracles' murder of his own family, in a fit of madness, which had been sent by Hera; however, further human rather than mythic motivation is supplied by mythographers who note that their respective families had been rivals for the throne of <a href="/wiki/Mycenae" title="Mycenae">Mycenae</a>. Details of the individual episodes may be found in the article on the <a href="/wiki/Labours_of_Heracles" class="mw-redirect" title="Labours of Heracles">Labours of Heracles</a>, but Hera was connected with all of the opponents Heracles had to overcome.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p> Heracles' human stepfather <a href="/wiki/Amphitryon" title="Amphitryon">Amphitryon</a> was also a grandson of Perseus, and since Amphitryon's father (<a href="/wiki/Alcaeus_(mythology)" title="Alcaeus (mythology)">Alcaeus</a>) was older than Eurystheus' father (<a href="/wiki/Sthenelus" title="Sthenelus">Sthenelus</a>), he might have received the kingdom, but Sthenelus had banished Amphitryon for accidentally killing (a familiar <a href="/wiki/Mytheme" title="Mytheme">mytheme</a>) the eldest son in the family (<a href="/wiki/Electryon" title="Electryon">Electryon</a>). When, shortly before his son Heracles was born, Zeus proclaimed the next-born descendant of Perseus should get the kingdom, Hera thwarted his ambitions by delaying <a href="/wiki/Alcmene" title="Alcmene">Alcmene</a>'s labour and having her candidate Eurystheus born prematurely at seven months.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p><figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Erymanthian_Boar_Louvre_G17.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Erymanthian_Boar_Louvre_G17.jpg/350px-Erymanthian_Boar_Louvre_G17.jpg" decoding="async" width="350" height="234" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Erymanthian_Boar_Louvre_G17.jpg/525px-Erymanthian_Boar_Louvre_G17.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Erymanthian_Boar_Louvre_G17.jpg/700px-Erymanthian_Boar_Louvre_G17.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3872" data-file-height="2592" /></a><figcaption>Eurystheus hiding in a <a href="/wiki/Pithos" title="Pithos">storage jar</a> as <a href="/wiki/Heracles" title="Heracles">Heracles</a> brings him the <a href="/wiki/Erymanthian_boar" title="Erymanthian boar">Erymanthian boar</a>. Side A from a <a href="/wiki/Red-figure_pottery" title="Red-figure pottery">red-figure</a> <a href="/wiki/Kylix_(drinking_cup)" class="mw-redirect" title="Kylix (drinking cup)">kylix</a> by <a href="/wiki/Oltos" title="Oltos">Oltos</a>, ca. 510 BC, (<a href="/wiki/Louvre" title="Louvre">Louvre</a>)</figcaption></figure><p> Heracles' first task was to slay the <a href="/wiki/Nemean_Lion" class="mw-redirect" title="Nemean Lion">Nemean Lion</a> and bring back its skin, which Heracles decided to wear. Eurystheus was so scared by Heracles' fearsome guise that he hid in a subterranean bronze <a href="/wiki/Pithos" title="Pithos">winejar</a>, and from that moment forth all labors were communicated to Heracles through a <a href="/wiki/Herald" title="Herald">herald</a>, <a href="/wiki/Copreus" class="mw-redirect" title="Copreus">Copreus</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>For his second labour, to slay the <a href="/wiki/Lernaean_Hydra" title="Lernaean Hydra">Lernaean Hydra</a>, Heracles took with him his nephew, <a href="/wiki/Iolaus" title="Iolaus">Iolaus</a>, as a charioteer. When Eurystheus found out that Heracles' nephew had helped him he declared that the labour had not been completed alone and as a result did not count towards the ten labours set for him.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Eurystheus' third task did not involve killing a beast, but capturing one alive—the <a href="/wiki/Ceryneian_Hind" title="Ceryneian Hind">Ceryneian Hind</a>, a golden-horned <a href="/wiki/Deer" title="Deer">hind</a> or <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/doe" class="extiw" title="wikt:doe">doe</a> sacred to <a href="/wiki/Artemis" title="Artemis">Artemis</a>. Heracles knew that he had to return the hind, as he had promised, to Artemis, so he agreed to hand it over on the condition that Eurystheus himself come out and take it from him. Eurystheus did come out, but the moment Heracles let the hind go, she sprinted back to her mistress, and Heracles departed, saying that Eurystheus had not been quick enough.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>When Heracles returned with the <a href="/wiki/Erymanthian_Boar" class="mw-redirect" title="Erymanthian Boar">Erymanthian Boar</a>, Eurystheus was again frightened and hid in his jar, begging Heracles to get rid of the beast; Heracles obliged.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The fifth labour proposed by Eurystheus was to clear out the numerous <a href="/wiki/Augean_Stables" class="mw-redirect" title="Augean Stables">stables of Augeias</a>. Striking a deal with Augeias, Heracles proposed a payment of a tenth of Augeias' cattle if the labour was completed successfully. Not believing the task feasible, Augeias agreed, asking his son Phyleus to witness. Heracles rerouted two nearby rivers (<a href="/wiki/Alfeios_River" class="mw-redirect" title="Alfeios River">Alpheis</a> and <a href="/wiki/Pineios_River_(Peloponnese)" class="mw-redirect" title="Pineios River (Peloponnese)">Peneios</a>) through the stable, clearing out the dung rapidly. When Augeias learned of Heracles' bargain for the task, he refused payment. Heracles brought the case to court, and Phyleus testified against his father. Enraged, Augeias banished both Phyleus and Heracles from the land before the court had cast their vote. However, Eurystheus refused to credit the labour to Heracles, as he had performed it for payment. So Heracles went and drove Augeias out of the kingdom and installed Phyleus as king. Heracles then took his tenth of the cattle and left them to graze in a field by his home.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>For his sixth labour, Heracles had to drive the <a href="/wiki/Stymphalian_Birds" class="mw-redirect" title="Stymphalian Birds">Stymphalian Birds</a> off the marshes they plagued. He did so, shooting down several birds with his Hydra-poisoned arrows and bringing them back to Eurystheus as proof.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>For his seventh labour, Heracles captured the <a href="/wiki/Cretan_Bull" title="Cretan Bull">Cretan Bull</a>. He used a <a href="/wiki/Lasso" title="Lasso">lasso</a> and rode it back to his cousin. Eurystheus offered to sacrifice the bull to Hera his patron, who hated Heracles. She refused the sacrifice because it reflected glory on Heracles. The bull was released and wandered to Marathon, becoming known as the <a href="/wiki/Marathonian_Bull" class="mw-redirect" title="Marathonian Bull">Marathonian Bull</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>When Heracles brought back the man-eating <a href="/wiki/Mares_of_Diomedes" title="Mares of Diomedes">Mares of Diomedes</a> successfully, Eurystheus dedicated the horses to Hera and allowed them to roam freely in the Argolid.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Bucephalus" title="Bucephalus">Bucephalus</a>, <a href="/wiki/Alexander_the_Great" title="Alexander the Great">Alexander the Great</a>'s horse, was said to be descended from these mares. </p><p>To acquire the belt of <a href="/wiki/Hippolyte" class="mw-redirect" title="Hippolyte">Hippolyte</a>, queen of the <a href="/wiki/Amazons" title="Amazons">Amazons</a>, was Heracles' ninth task. This task was at the request of Eurystheus' daughter, Admete.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> For the tenth labour, he stole the cattle of the <a href="/wiki/Giants_(Greek_mythology)" title="Giants (Greek mythology)">giant</a> <a href="/wiki/Geryon" title="Geryon">Geryon</a>, which Eurystheus then sacrificed to Hera.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>To extend what may have once been ten Labours to the canonical dozen, it was said that Eurystheus didn't count the Hydra, as he was assisted, nor the Augean stables, as Heracles received payment for his work. For the eleventh labour, Heracles had to obtain the Apples of the <a href="/wiki/Hesperides" title="Hesperides">Hesperides</a>; he convinced their father, the <a href="/wiki/Titan_(mythology)" class="mw-redirect" title="Titan (mythology)">Titan</a> <a href="/wiki/Atlas_(mythology)" title="Atlas (mythology)">Atlas</a>, to help him, but did his share of work by temporarily holding up the sky in the Titan's stead.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> For his final labour, he was to capture <a href="/wiki/Cerberus" title="Cerberus">Cerberus</a>, the three-headed hound that guarded the entrance to <a href="/wiki/Greek_underworld" title="Greek underworld">Hades</a>. When he managed to bring the struggling animal back, the terrified Eurystheus hid in his jar one more time, begging Heracles to leave for good and take the dog with him.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Death">Death</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Eurystheus&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Death"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>After Heracles died, Eurystheus remained bitter over the indignity the hero had caused him. He attempted to destroy Heracles' many children (the <a href="/wiki/Heracleidae" title="Heracleidae">Heracleidae</a>, led by <a href="/wiki/Hyllus" title="Hyllus">Hyllus</a>), who fled to <a href="/wiki/Athens" title="Athens">Athens</a>. He attacked the city but was soundly defeated, and Eurystheus and his sons were killed.<sup id="cite_ref-Apollodorus,_2.8.1_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Apollodorus,_2.8.1-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Though it is widely told that Hyllus killed Eurystheus, the stories about the killer of Eurystheus and the fate of his corpse vary,<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but the Athenians believed the burial site of Eurystheus remained on their soil and served to protect the country against the descendants of Heracles, who traditionally included the <a href="/wiki/Sparta" title="Sparta">Spartans</a> and <a href="/wiki/Argos,_Peloponnese" title="Argos, Peloponnese">Argives</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Duncker1883_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Duncker1883-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After Eurystheus' death, the brothers <a href="/wiki/Atreus" title="Atreus">Atreus</a> and <a href="/wiki/Thyestes" title="Thyestes">Thyestes</a>, whom he had left in charge during his absence, took over the city, the former exiling the latter and assuming the kingship, while <a href="/wiki/Tiryns" title="Tiryns">Tiryns</a> returned to the kingship of <a href="/wiki/Argos,_Peloponnese" title="Argos, Peloponnese">Argos</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Eurystheus_in_Euripides">Eurystheus in Euripides</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Eurystheus&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Eurystheus in Euripides"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Eurystheus was a character in <i><a href="/wiki/Heracleidae_(play)" class="mw-redirect" title="Heracleidae (play)">Heracleidae</a></i>, a play by <a href="/wiki/Euripides" title="Euripides">Euripides</a>. <a href="/wiki/Macaria_(daughter_of_Heracles)" title="Macaria (daughter of Heracles)">Macaria</a>, one of the daughters of <a href="/wiki/Heracles" title="Heracles">Heracles</a>, and her brothers and sisters hid from Eurystheus in <a href="/wiki/Athens,_Greece" class="mw-redirect" title="Athens, Greece">Athens</a>, which was ruled by King <a href="/wiki/Demophon_of_Athens" title="Demophon of Athens">Demophon</a>. As Eurystheus prepared to attack, an <a href="/wiki/Oracle" title="Oracle">oracle</a> told Demophon that he would win if and only if a <a href="/wiki/Nobility" title="Nobility">noble woman</a> was sacrificed to <a href="/wiki/Persephone" title="Persephone">Persephone</a>. Macaria volunteered for the sacrifice and a spring was named the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Macarian_spring&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Macarian spring (page does not exist)">Macarian spring</a> in her honor. Eurystheus speaks prophetically of his burial within Attica, claiming that he will be an anti-hero of sorts, though one who will eventually protect the Athenians.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="In_popular_culture">In popular culture</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Eurystheus&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: In popular culture"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Eurystheus appears in the 1958 film <i><a href="/wiki/Hercules_(1958_film)" title="Hercules (1958 film)">Hercules</a></i> and is portrayed by Italian actor <a href="/wiki/Arturo_Dominici" title="Arturo Dominici">Arturo Dominici</a>. In contrast to the character's mythology, the Eurystheus depicted in the film is only a supporting character seen as a criminal recruited to kill King <a href="/wiki/Aeson" title="Aeson">Aeson</a> of <a href="/wiki/Iolcus" title="Iolcus">Iolcus</a>. During the film's climax, he is confronted and strangled to death by Hercules' chain lasso.</li> <li>Eurystheus appears in the 1960 film <i><a href="/wiki/Goliath_and_the_Dragon" title="Goliath and the Dragon">Goliath and the Dragon</a>,</i> portrayed by <a href="/wiki/Broderick_Crawford" title="Broderick Crawford">Broderick Crawford</a>. In this second known film appearance, he is depicted as a <a href="/wiki/Warlord" title="Warlord">warlord</a> set on conquering <a href="/wiki/Thebes,_Greece" title="Thebes, Greece">Thebes</a> and becoming its new king. He sets Hercules on a dangerous mission (reminiscent of the <a href="/wiki/Twelve_Labours_of_Hercules" class="mw-redirect" title="Twelve Labours of Hercules">Twelfth Labor of Hercules</a>), believing the hero will perish and leave Thebes defenseless without its champion. Eurystheus is later killed in a dungeon scene with Hercules after being pushed by a slave girl into an open pit of snakes.</li> <li>Eurystheus appears in the 2014 film <i><a href="/wiki/Hercules_(2014_film)" title="Hercules (2014 film)">Hercules</a>,</i> portrayed by <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Fiennes" title="Joseph Fiennes">Joseph Fiennes</a>. Here, Eurystheus (depicted as <a href="/wiki/King_of_Athens" class="mw-redirect" title="King of Athens">King of Athens</a> in 361 BC, when the city was actually a <a href="/wiki/Athenian_democracy" title="Athenian democracy">democracy</a>) is responsible for the death of Hercules' family, rather than Hercules under <a href="/wiki/Hera" title="Hera">Hera</a>'s spell, having drugged Hercules and sent three <a href="/wiki/Black_wolf" title="Black wolf">black wolves</a> to attack him. The wolves killed Hercules' family, though Hercules believed that it was he who killed his own family. Hercules avenges his family by stabbing Eurystheus to death with his own dagger.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Eurystheus&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Scholia" title="Scholia">Scholia</a> on <a href="/wiki/Homer" title="Homer">Homer</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Iliad" title="Iliad">Iliad</a></i> 19.119</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Tzetzes" class="mw-redirect" title="Tzetzes">Tzetzes</a>, <i>Chiliades</i> 2.172 & 195</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-:0-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-:0_3-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-:0_3-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Bibliotheca_(Pseudo-Apollodorus)" title="Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)">Apollodorus</a>, 2.4.5</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Antimache (Ἀντιμάχη) does not feature further in Greek myth, aside from a list of names of her sons and a genealogy for her, given in Apollodorus, 2.5.9, 2.8.1 & 3.9.2</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Apollodorus,_2.8.1-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Apollodorus,_2.8.1_5-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Apollodorus,_2.8.1_5-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Apollodorus, 2.8.1</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Apollodorus, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+2.5.9&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022">2.5.9</a> & 2.8.1</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-:1-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-:1_7-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Athenaeus" title="Athenaeus">Athenaeus</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Deipnosophistae" title="Deipnosophistae">Deipnosophistae</a></i> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://topostext.org/work/218#4.158">4.158</a> (p. 219)</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">See Carl A.P. Ruck and Danny Staples, <i>The World of Classical Myth</i> (1994) VII. "Herakles: Making the New Olympia", pp.163-202.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Walter_Burkert" title="Walter Burkert">Walter Burkert</a>, <i>Greek Religion</i> (1985) p. 210: "Heracles seems to carry Hera's name in his own, as if Hera were his fame (<i>kleos</i>), yet all we ever hear is that, from beginning to end, this jealous wife of Zeus persecutes her step-son with unrelenting hatred." For Hera's connection with each of Heracles' opponents, see under the individual Labours.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Apollodorus, 2.5.1</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-11">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Apollodorus, 2.5.2</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-12">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Apollodorus, 2.5.3</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-13">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Apollodorus, 2.5.4</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-14">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Apollodorus, 2.5.5</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-15">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Apollodorus, 2.5.6</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-16">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Apollodorus, 2.5.7</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-17">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Apollodorus, 2.5.8</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-18">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Apollodorus, 2.5.9</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-19"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-19">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Apollodorus, 2.5.10</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-20"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-20">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Apollodorus, 2.5.11</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-21"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-21">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Apollodorus, 2.5.12</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-22"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-22">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Apollodorus, 3.8.1 and <a href="/wiki/Diodorus_Siculus" title="Diodorus Siculus">Diodorus Siculus</a> 4.57 give <a href="/wiki/Hyllus" title="Hyllus">Hyllus</a> as the slayer, <a href="/wiki/Pausanias_(geographer)" title="Pausanias (geographer)">Pausanias</a> 1.44.10 and <a href="/wiki/Strabo" title="Strabo">Strabo</a> 7.6.19 give <a href="/wiki/Iolaus" title="Iolaus">Iolaus</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Duncker1883-23"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Duncker1883_23-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free 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rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=JjIOAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA86"><i>History of Greece, to the end of the Persian war, tr. by S. F. Alleyne (and E. Abbott)</i></a>. pp. 86–.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=History+of+Greece%2C+to+the+end+of+the+Persian+war%2C+tr.+by+S.+F.+Alleyne+%28and+E.+Abbott%29.&rft.pages=86-&rft.date=1883&rft.au=Maximilian+Wolfgang+Duncker&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DJjIOAAAAQAAJ%26pg%3DPA86&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AEurystheus" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-24"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-24">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Heracleidae vv. 1026-1044.</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Eurystheus&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bibliotheca_(Pseudo-Apollodorus)" title="Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)">Apollodorus</a>, <i>The Library</i> with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. 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