Tiryns
place · 3 works · 3 mentions · 4 anchored passages
Tirynthian army · the well-built citadel
in the texts
Protrepticus
Argive city, site of statues of Hera and Heracles.
these made the statues of the Dioscuri in Argos, and the statue of Heracles in Tiryns, and the xoanon of Munychian Artemis in Sicyon.
Shield of Heracles
Amphitryon's original citadel, abandoned when he went into exile after killing Electryon.
“O hero Iolaus, best beloved of all men, truly Amphitryon sinned deeply against the blessed gods who dwell on Olympus when he came to sweet-crowned Thebes and left Tiryns, the well-built citadel, because he slew Electryon for the sake of his wide-browed oxen.
Olympian
City associated with Heracles (his army is 'Tirynthian') and hometown of the first Olympic boxing victor, Doryclus.
for once before those arrogant Moliones had destroyed his Tirynthian army, when it was encamped in the valley of Elis,
In wrestling, Echemus won glory for Tegea, And the prize in boxing was won by Doryclus, who lived in the city of Tiryns, And in the four-horse chariot the victor was Samos of Mantinea, the son of Halirhothius.