Eurytus

Character · slug: eurytus

Youth of Heracles: Linus, Cithaeron, Thespius, and the Minyans
Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (education; Linus’s death; Cithaeronian lion; Thespius; liberation of Thebes)
After the Labors: Iphitus’s Murder and Sale to Omphale
Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (labors complete; Eurytus and Iole; murder of Iphitus; Delphic sentence of servitude; Hermes sells Heracles to Omphale of Lydia)
Sack of Oechalia and the Taking of Iole (Apollodorus)
Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (revenge on Eurytus; city sacked; Iole taken as captive concubine; children of Eurytus slain)
Iole at Trachis: Lichas’s Lie and the Truth (Sophocles)
Heroes — Heracles · Attic tragic — Sophocles *Trachiniae* (captive train; Lichas’s false tale; messenger’s exposure; Deianeira recognizes Iole as rival)