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...Heracleidae is a play by Euripides c. 430 BC. It follows the children of Heracles (known as the Heracleidae), as they seek protection from Eurystheus. It is the first of two surviving plays by Euripides where the family of Heracles are suppliants (the second being Heracles Mad)....

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...rypylus (u-rip ́-i-lus)..........................................................................................................................136 Eurystheus (u-riss ́-thuce)......................................................................................................................136 Eurytion (u-rit ́-e-on).......................................................

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...ace of Mycenae; and himself of his own will set out against the purpose of Eurystheus; and with him went Hylas, a brave comrade, in the flower of yout... ...cles to the city of Aeetes? At Argos it is his fate to labour for insolent Eurystheus and to accomplish full twelve toils and dwell with the immortals... ...iver’s name, and the other, Heracles, to return and toil at the labours of Eurystheus. And he threatened to lay waste the Mysian land at once, should ...

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.... He for gets how often I saved his son when he was worn out by the labours Eurystheus had laid on him. He would weep till his cry came up to heaven,... ...d send me down to help him; if I had had the sense to foresee all this, when Eurystheus sent him to the house of Hades, to fetch the hell hound from E... ...tes of Mycenæ; he was son of Copreus who was wont to take the orders of King Eurystheus to mighty Hercules, but the son was a far better man than the ... ...e lightning—I have a word for your ear. There is a fine child born this day, Eurystheus, son to Sthenelus the son of Perseus; he is of your lineage; i... ...ver angry with her when he saw his son groaning under the cruel labours that Eurystheus laid upon him. Even so did I grieve when mighty Hector was kil...

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... Hesperides, whither I am going to get three of the golden apples for King Eurystheus.” 42 TanglewoodTales “Caitiff, you shall go no farther!” bellow... ...his lion’s skin, and carried them home to Greece, for the children of King Eurystheus to play with. But this is a mistake. He left them, one and all, ...

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...r my heed. Today is born a man of valor who shall rule among the Archives, Eurystheus, son of Sthenelos the son of Perseus, of thy lineage; not unmeet... ... he groaned against her when he beheld his beloved son in cruel travail at Eurystheus’ hest. Thus also I, what time great Hector of the glancing helm ...

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...at Harry was to be a Hercules. “Oh! as Adonis, of course,” said Hippo. “Or Eurystheus,” whispered her sister. Eustace did not understand, and looked p...

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...deserved reward: Saved I, for this, his favourite son distress’d, By stern Eurystheus with long labours press’d? He begg’d, with tears he begg’d, in d... ...y name, In wisdom great, in arms well known to fame; The minister of stern Eurystheus’ ire Against Alcides, Copreus was his sire: The son redeem’d the...

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... . Who would Hercules have been had he loitered at home? No Hercules, but Eurystheus. And in his wanderings through the world how many friends and ...

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...h else had charmed the vacant mind with song, Are now waxed common. Of harsh Eurystheus who The story knows not, or that praiseless king Busiris, and ...

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...hat he left his home and his par- ents and went to do honour to the wicked Eurystheus — unhappy man! Deeply indeed did he grieve afterwards in bearing... ...ed to wander over unmeasured tracts of land and sea at the bidding of King Eurystheus, and himself did many deeds of violence and endured many; but no...

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...al seemed the pictured thing, As by Aleides’ giant strength the brute Was to Eurystheus living borne on high. There fashioned was the fleetfoot stag w...

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...overthrew. Besides, a thousand hazards they relate, Procur’d by Juno’s and Eurystheus’ hate: “Thy hands, unconquer’d hero, could subdue The cloud born...

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...done had they lived in his time. We only want to be set to work by another Eurystheus, and nothing else for the present, unless it be what I heartily ...