Erytheia
place · 3 works · 3 mentions · 3 anchored passages
shepherd of Erytheia
in the texts
Heracles
Mythical island home of the three-bodied monster Geryon (called 'shepherd of Erytheia'), slain by Heracles.
He burned to ashes Lerna’s murderous hound, the many-headed water-snake, and smeared its venom on his darts, with which he slew the shepherd of Erytheia, a monster with three bodies.
Archidamus
The place associated with Heracles’ cattle in the story used to justify Messene.
and lastly, they found that Messene was theirs as a prize taken in war, for Heracles, when he had been robbed of the cattle from Erytheia, by Neleus and all his sons except Nestor, had taken the country captive and slain the offenders, but had committed the city to Nestor’s charge, believing him to be prudent, because, although the youngest of his brethren, he had taken no part in their iniquity.
Helen
Distant land from which Heracles was ordered to bring cattle as one of his labors.
For example, Heracles was ordered by Eurystheus to bring the cattle from Erytheia and to obtain the apples of the Hesperides and to fetch Cerberus up from Hades and to perform other labors of that kind, labors which would bring no benefit to mankind, but only danger to himself;