Tiryns
place · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
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.