Eurystheus & the Children of Heracles Archives - ToursMaps.com ® http://toursmaps.com/tag/eurystheus-the-children-of-heracles Sat, 21 Oct 2017 19:10:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.9 Eurystheus & the Children of Heracles http://toursmaps.com/eurystheus-the-children-of-heracles.html http://toursmaps.com/eurystheus-the-children-of-heracles.html#respond Mon, 05 Mar 2018 17:04:00 +0000 http://toursmaps.com/?p=245561 With Heracles dead, Eurystheus seized his chance to wreak vengeance on his hated cousin’s children. For some time Heracles’ mother Alcmene had been living in Tiryns with many of the sons whom Heracles had fathered on his travels. Now Eurystheus vowed to expel them – along with all Heracles’ other children – from Greece. When Athens’ king Theseus heard of this injustice, he offered them asylum in Attica and soon the sons of Heracles had formed an army. Rousing himself to unaccustomed action, Eurystheus marched from Tiryns with his own troops, and on the coast just north of the Isthmus

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