When Heracles brought back the man-eating Mares of Diomedes successfully, Eurystheus dedicated the horses to Hera and allowed them to roam freely in the Argolid.

Fear of Hera's revenge led Alcmene to expose the infant Heracles, but he was taken up and brought to Hera by his half-sister Athena, who played an important role as protectress of heroes.

Heracles ' servant, Lichas, brought him the shirt and he put it on.

In Greek mythology, a storm on Propontis brought the Argonauts back to an island they had left, precipitating a battle where either Jason or Heracles killed King Cyzicus, who mistook them for his Pelasgian enemies.

Heracles ' servant, Lichas, brought him the shirt and he put it on.

Sophax in his turn was father of Diodorus who conquered many Libyan peoples with his army of Olbians and Mycenaeans brought to Libya by Heracles.

He said that they would win if they stole the Trojan Palladium, brought the bones of Pelops to Troy, and persuaded Neoptolemus ( Achilles ' son by the Scyrian princess Deidamia ) and Philoctetes ( who possessed Heracles ' bow and arrows ) to join the Greeks in the war.

In one version of the story, Heracles brought a number of youths to help him.

When Heracles came to visit the centaur Pholus, Pholus opened a jug of wine for him which belonged to all the Centaurs ; Asbolus saw Pholus do this and brought the other Centaurs running.

In one version, during Heracles ' ninth labor, which was to obtain the Girdle of Hippolyte, when he captured the Amazons ' capital of Themiscyra, his companion Theseus, king of Athens, abducted Antiope and brought her to his home ( or she was captured by Heracles and then given by him to Theseus ).

This fourth play in his tetralogy for 438 BC ( i. e. it occupied the position conventionally reserved for satyr-plays ) is a ' tragedy ' that features Heracles as a satyric hero in conventional satyr-play scenes, involving an arrival, a banquest, a victory over an ogre ( in this case Death ), a happy ending, a feast and a departure to new adventures.

In Milo's case, Aristotle began the myth-making process with reports likening Milo unto Heracles in his enormous appetite, and Athenaeus continued the process with the story of Milo carrying a bull — a feat also associated with Heracles.

A hero was more than human but less than a god, and various kinds of supernatural figures came to be assimilated to the class of heroes ; the distinction between a hero and a god was less than certain, especially in the case of Heracles, the most prominent, but a typical hero.

Enraged, Augeias banished both Phyleus and Heracles from the land before the court had cast their vote.

In the poem Shield of Heracles, Heracles and Iolaus encountered Cycnus and Ares on the way to Trachis, each pair riding a chariot ; it is mentioned that Heracles was directing to the court of King Ceyx, to whose daughter Themistonoe Cycnus was married.

Panels 2, 3-2: At the court of King Aleus ; 3: Heracles catches sight of Aleus ’ daughter Auge in the temple

Heracles gave his kingdom to Augeas ' son Phyleus, who had been exiled for supporting Heracles against his father.

After Heracles killed Augeas and his other sons, he gave Phyleus the kingdom.

Extending one night into three, Zeus slept with Alcmene ( his great-granddaughter ) ( thereby conceiving Heracles ) and recounted Amphitryon's victories against the Teleboans.

Diodorus Siculus enlists nine Amazons who challenged Heracles to single combat during his quest for Hippolyta's girdle and died against him one by one: Aella, Philippis, Prothoe, Eriboea, Celaeno, Eurybia, Phoebe, Deianeira, Asteria, Marpe, Tecmessa, Alcippe.

Stephanus of Byzantium provides an alternate list of the Amazons that fell against Heracles, describing them as " the most prominent " of their people: Tralla, Isocrateia, Thiba, Palla, Coea ( Koia ), Coenia ( Koinia ).

* Ainippe, an Amazon who confronted Telamon in the battle against Heracles ' troops

The stories about the killer of Eurystheus and the fate of his corpse vary, 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 Spartans and Argives.

Thus, Heracles ' very existence proved at least one of Zeus ' many illicit affairs, and Hera often conspired against Zeus ' mortal offspring as revenge for her husband's infidelities.

The expedition against Cycnus, in which Iolaus accompanied Heracles, is the ostensible theme of a short epic attributed to Hesiod, Shield of Heracles.

They withdrew to Thessaly, where Aegimius, the mythical ancestor of the Dorians, whom Heracles had assisted in war against the Lapithae, adopted Hyllus and made over to him a third part of his territory.

* Phoebe, one of the Amazons who fought against Heracles

The state was ruled by two hereditary kings of the Agiad and Eurypontid families, both supposedly descendants of Heracles and equal in authority, so that one could not act against the veto of his colleague.

He and his brother Telamon were friends of Heracles, serving in his expedition against the Amazons, his war against King Laomedon, and with him in the quest for the Golden Fleece.

In the 1985 – 86 season, he scored 37 goals in 26 league matches, including six goals against Sparta Rotterdam and five against Heracles Almelo, and won the European Golden Boot.

Diodorus indicates Milo led the charge against the Sybarites wearing his Olympic crowns, draped in a lionskin and brandishing a club in a manner similar to the mythic hero Heracles ( see adjacent image ).

He asked Heracles for help in a war against the Lapiths and, in gratitude, offered him one-third of his kingdom.

They withdrew to Thessaly, where Aegimius, the mythical ancestor of the Dorians, whom Heracles had assisted in war against the Lapidae, adopted Hyllus and made over to him a third part of his territory.

He and Peleus were also close friends with Heracles, assisting him on his expeditions against the Amazons and against Troy ( see below ).

Heracles ( along with Telamon and Oicles ) happened to arrive on their return from the expedition against the Amazons.

In one victory ode, celebrating Glaucus of Carystus, a famous boxer, Simonides declares that not even Heracles or Polydeuces could have stood against him — a statement whose impiety seemed notable even to Lucian many generations later.

In Greek mythology, Eurystheus ( pronounced, meaning " broad strength " in folk etymology and pronounced ) was king of Tiryns, one of three Mycenaean strongholds in the Argolid, although other authors including Homer and Euripides cast him as ruler of Argos: Sthenelus was his father and the " victorious horsewoman " Nicippe his mother, and he was a grandson of the hero Perseus, as was his opponent Heracles.

Heracles ' human stepfather Amphitryon was also a grandson of Perseus, and since Amphitryon's father ( Alcaeus ) was older than Eurystheus ' father ( Sthenelus ), he might have received the kingdom, but Sthenelus had banished Amphitryon for accidentally killing ( a familiar mytheme ) the eldest son in the family ( Electryon ).

His twin mortal brother, son of Amphitryon, was Iphicles, father of Heracles ' charioteer Iolaus.

It was this kneeling position of Heracles when prayed to his father Zeus that gave the name Engonasin ("", derived from ), meaning " on his knees " or " the Kneeler "

Heracles accepted the request, and became by her the father of Agathyrsus, Gelonus, and Scythes.

Diomus is also mentioned by Stephanus of Byzantium as the eponym of the deme Diomeia of the Attic phyle Aegeis: Heracles is said to have fallen in love with Diomus when he was received as guest by Diomus ' father Collytus.

Heracles then uproots several trees and builds a funeral pyre, which Poeas, father of Philoctetes, lights.

Traces of such a theory appear to underline various myths of a hero ( such as Heracles ) with both a human and a divine father.

Invoked in passing by poets and figured as the father of rivers and streams, thus the progenitor of river gods, Oceanus appears only once in myth, as a representative of the archaic world that Heracles constantly threatened and bested.

Lysander's father was Aristocleitus, who was a member of the Spartan Heracleidae ; that is, like most Dorian men of good family, he claimed descent from Heracles.

** Hippolytus, father of Deiphobus of Amyclae ( the one who cleansed Heracles for the murder of Iphitus )

Achelous was sometimes the father of the Sirens by Terpsichore, or in a later version, they are from the blood he shed where Heracles broke off his horn.

In Greek mythology, Telephus or Telephos ( Greek: Τήλεφος, " far-shining ") was the son of Heracles and Auge, daughter of king Aleus of Tegea ; and the father of Eurypylus.

She had three reasons to help him: she was related to Heracles ; Heracles fought a war that made her father King of Sparta ; and she was angry at her husband.

Chrysaor, married to Callirrhoe, daughter of glorious Oceanus, was father to the triple-headed Geryon, but Geryon was killed by the great strength of Heracles at sea-circled Erytheis beside his own shambling cattle on that day when Heracles drove those broad-faced cattle toward holy Tiryns, when he crossed the stream of Okeanos and had killed Orthos and the oxherd Eurytion out in the gloomy meadow beyond fabulous Okeanos.

Heracles, as one of his Twelve Labors, was obliged by her father to fetch for her the girdle of Ares, which was worn by Hippolyte, queen of the Amazons.

Hyginus adds to the story at this point that Heracles not only eventually murdered Iole's father Eurytus, but he murdered Iole's brothers and other relatives as well.

Iphicles was the father of Heracles ' charioteer Iolaus by Automedusa, daughter of Alcathous.