Hyllus
mythological figure · 2 works · 3 mentions · 9 anchored passages
in the texts
Heracleidae
Eldest son of Heracles, who is absent for most of the window seeking allies and later returns leading an armed force to fight Eurystheus.
Servant (of Hyllus):
Servant (of Hyllus):
A messenger who says thy grandson cometh hither.
The Histories
Son of Heracles who, leading the Heraclidae's attempt to return to the Peloponnese, proposed and lost a single combat against the Peloponnesian champion Echemus.
he fought that duel and killed Hyllus.
The Peloponnesians, resolving that this should be so, swore a compact that if Hyllus should overcome the Peloponnesian champion, the Heraclidae should return to the land of their fathers, but if he were himself beaten, then the Heraclidae should depart and lead their army away, not attempting to return to the Peloponnese until a hundred years had passed.
When we marched out at the Isthmus for war, along with the Achaeans and Ionians who then dwelt in the Peloponnese, and encamped opposite the returning exiles, then (it is said) Hyllus announced that army should not be risked against army in battle, but that that champion in the host of the Peloponnesians whom they chose as their best should fight with him in single combat on agreed conditions.