Hyllos
Hyllos ( Greek Ὕλλος ), Latin Hyllus , is the eldest son of Herakles and Deianeira , according to one version also the son of Melite . Hyllos is one of the Heraclids . He is married to Iole and had with her the son Cleiodaios . The nurse Abia raised him. Eurystheus, still looking for revenge after the death of Heracles, persecuted the Heraclids. Among them was Hyllos. First they fled to King Keyx in Trachis , then to Athens . Since the Heraclids wanted to recapture the Peloponnese , a fight broke out, with Hyllos killing Eurystheus . Hyllos died in a duel with Echemos . He was buried in Megara .
literature
- Paul Weizsäcker : Hyllos 2) . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1,2, Leipzig 1890, Col. 2798 f. ( Digitized version ).
Web links
- Hyllus in the Greek Myth Index (English)
- Heracleidai in the Greek Myth Index (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Library of Apollodorus 2, 7.
- ↑ Apollonios of Rhodes : Argonautica 4, 537-543.
- ↑ Herodotus : Historien 8, 131.
- ^ Libraries of Apollodorus 2, 8.
- ↑ Herodotus : Histories 9, 26.
- ↑ Pausanias : Description of Greece 1, 41, 2.