Eurystheus

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A Mycenaean king of Tiryns (or, according to some authors, of Argos), in Argolis, who imposed the twelve labours on Heracles.

Greek

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“"But why hasn't Iolaus killed Eurystheus?," she asks. In a witticism very much akin to Electra's "But where are the messengers?," Euripides has Alcmene ask⟳, essentially, why the plot she is part of has just swerved from its expected course: Iolaus is supposed to kill⟳ Eurystheus, by tradition.”

“Already we have⟳ seen from Iliad 19 and the birth of Eurystheus that at an early stage⟳ of the tradition Herakles was destined to be subordinate to his cousin.”

“There is a different kind of religious reference at 989-90, where Eurystheus claims that it was Hera who had afflicted him with the enmity towards Heracles.”

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