Children of Heracles · Atlas

in the texts

HeracleidaeClassical · Greek

The young, unnamed sons of Heracles (distinct from Hyllus and Macaria) whom Iolaus and Alcmena shelter and present as suppliants at the altar of Zeus.

These, sirs, are the sons of Heracles, come as suppliants to you and your city.

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I keep these his children safe beneath my wing, though myself I need protection.

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my care is centred on these boys, while she, I mean Alcmena, clasps her son’s daughter in her arms, and bears her for safety within this shrine, for we shrink from letting tender maidens come anigh the crowd or stand as suppliants at the altar.

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OrationsImperial · Greek

Offspring of Heracles whom Athens refused to surrender to Eurystheus.

and, long before these, Atreus received Argos from Eurystheus, when Eurystheus marched against Athens, the Athenians refusing to give up the children of Heracles;

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HeraclesClassical · Greek

The three young sons of Heracles and Megara, killed by their father in his madness.

see the wretched children lying before their unhappy father, who is sunk in dreadful slumber after shedding their blood.

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and she hurled a rock against the breast of Heracles, which held him from his frenzied thirst for blood and plunged him into sleep;

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There stood his group of lovely children, with his father and Megara;

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HelenClassical · Greek

The offspring of Heracles, whose lives Theseus saved by defeating the Peloponnesians.

his piety toward the gods in connexion with the supplications of Adrastus and the children of Heracles when, by defeating the Peloponnesians in battle, he saved the lives of the children, and to Adrastus he restored for burial, despite the Thebans, the bodies of those who had died beneath the walls of the Cadmea;

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To PhilipClassical · Greek

The descendants of Heracles whom Athens protected from Eurystheus, enabling Philip's later lineage.

Yes, Athens single-handed sustained the greatest dangers against the power of Eurystheus, put an end to his insolence, and freed Heracles’ sons from the fears by which they were continually beset.

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and as for our city, we are informed by those whom we credit in matters of ancient history that she aided Heracles to win his immortality (in what way you can easily learn at another time;

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