first of two surviving tragedies by Euripides where the children of Heracles are suppliants (the second being Heracles). Children of Heracles was written...

Phaleron. After the 4th century BCE, Heracles became identified with the Phoenician God Melqart Oitaeans worshiped Heracles and called him Cornopion (Κορνοπίων)...

bore Heracles eight sons. Alternatively, the Roman mythographer Hyginus named their sons as Therimachus and Ophites. Megara was married to Heracles by her...

numerous monsters. Heracles married Megara, eldest daughter of King Creon of Thebes. However, in a fit of madness induced by Hera, Heracles killed Megara and...

Heracles) is an Athenian tragedy by Euripides that was first performed c. 416 BC. While Heracles is in the underworld obtaining Cerberus for one of his...

Zenobius. In the Heracleidae of Euripides, Macaria ("she who is blessed") is a daughter of Heracles. Even after Heracles' death, King Eurystheus pursues...

Athens to the rulers of Peloponnesus. After Heracles was poisoned by Deianira, Heracles charged Hyllus to marry Iole when he came of age. Hyllus and Iole...

regarded as gatekeepers of Olympus, a role often associated with their father, Heracles. Their birth occurred after Heracles' mortal death and subsequent...

retrospectively to validate Heracles' parentage. On Alexander's death Nearchus, who was then son-in-law of Barsine, advocated for Heracles' inheritance, but was...

wrath") was the wife of Amphitryon, by whom she bore two children, Iphicles and Laonome. She is best known as the mother of Heracles, whose father was the...

was the Thespian son of Heracles and Euboea, daughter of King Thespius of Thespiae. Olympus and his 49 half-brothers were born of Thespius' daughters who...

given by Heracles 500 elephants, 4000 horses and infantry of 130 000. According to Pliny the Elder, Pandaie was the only female child of Heracles (which...

son of Zeus and the mortal Danaë, as well as the half-brother and great-grandfather of Heracles (as they were both children of Zeus, and Heracles' mother...

Eucleia was sometimes considered a separate goddess and the daughter of Heracles and Myrto, and as she died a virgin, she came to be venerated as a goddess...

Thebes, and the war against the Teleboans. The birth and early life of Heracles Heracles and the Minyans; his first marriage, and madness. First labour: the...

was the leader of the Rhodian forces in the Trojan War. Tlepolemus was a son of Heracles and Astyoche, daughter of Phylas, king of Ephyra. Though some...

of Hercules and an unnamed mother. In "The Life of Fabius Maximus" from the Parallel Lives by Plutarch, Fabius, the first of his name, was the son of...

but Heracles returns and apparently saves the pair from immediate death, and the play perhaps ended with the assurance (from Athena to Heracles?) that...

after the death of Acastus, became king of Iolcus. Thessalus, also called Thettalus, son of Heracles and Chalciope. He was the father of Antiphus, Pheidippus...

(daughter of Iardanus) set Heracles free and married him, Heracles fathered a son, Cleodaeus, on a slave-woman. This fits, though in Herodotus the son of Heracles...

Indiana University Press. 1966. Euripides, Andromache in Euripides: Children of Heracles. Hippolytus. Andromache. Hecuba, edited and translated by David Kovacs...

effect. Philoctetes was Heracles' friend, and because he lit Heracles's funeral pyre when no one else would, he received Heracles' bow and arrows. He sailed...

from Heracles, such as the Agiads and Eurypontids of Sparta, or the Temenids of Macedonia. Heracles, whom Zeus had originally intended to be ruler of Argos...

Pausanias and classical authors identified as the "Heracles" of Libyans and Egyptians. Temple of Antas Sherden Norax Iolaus Sallust, Historiae, II, fr...

ISBN 978-0-941051-00-2. Euripides, Hecuba, translated by David Kovacs in Euripides: Children of Heracles. Hippolytus. Andromache. Hecuba. Edited and translated by David Kovacs...

the naiads, Lamides, caretakers of the child Dionysus. These nymphs were maddened by Hera. Lamus, a Lydian son of Heracles by Queen Omphale. In some accounts...

and Ischys by Elatus, king of the Lapiths. Antiphus, the Thespian son of Heracles and Laothoe, daughter of King Thespius of Thespiae. Antiphus and his...

In Roman mythology, Pallas (/ˈpæləs/; Ancient Greek: Πάλλας) was the son of King Evander. In Virgil's Aeneid, Evander allows Pallas to fight against the...

was the Thespian son of Heracles and Lysidice, daughter of King Thespius of Thespiae. Teles and his 49 half-brothers were born of Thespius' daughters who...

son of Heracles and Omphale, and ancestor of Croesus. In other sources this son is instead called Lamus. Agelaus, a common herdsman (or slave of Priam)...