Eurystheus

Borrowing from Ancient Greek Εὐρυσθεύς (Eurustheús).

Eurystheus

1. (Greek mythology) A Mycenaean king of Tiryns (or, according to some authors, of Argos), in Argolis, who imposed the twelve labours on Heracles.
   • 1991, Transactions of the American Philological Association, Scholars Press, page 129:

     "But why hasn't Iolaus killed Eurystheus?," she asks. In a witticism very much akin to Electra's "But where are the messengers?," Euripides has Alcmene ask, essentially, why the plot she is part of has just swerved from its expected course: Iolaus is supposed to kill Eurystheus, by tradition.

   • 1993, Timothy Gantz, Early Greek Myth: A Guide to Literary and Artistic Sources, Volume 2, Johns Hopkins University Press, page 381:

     Already we have seen from Iliad 19 and the birth of Eurystheus that at an early stage of the tradition Herakles was destined to be subordinate to his cousin.

   • 2003, Christiane Sourvinou-Inwood, Tragedy and Athenian Religion‎, Rowman & Littlefield (Lexington Books), page 323:

     There is a different kind of religious reference at 989-90, where Eurystheus claims that it was Hera who had afflicted him with the enmity towards Heracles.

• Eurystheus appears (as king of Argos) in Euripides' Heracleidae ("Children of Heracles").

• Eurysthean

From Ancient Greek Εὐρυσθεύς (Eurustheús).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /eu̯ˈrys.tʰeu̯s/, [ɛu̯ˈrʏs̠t̪ʰɛu̯s̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /eu̯ˈris.teu̯s/, [eu̯ˈrist̪eu̯s]

Eurysthe͡us m sg (genitive Eurystheī); second declension

1. Eurystheus, son of Sthenelus, grandson of Perseus, and king of Mycenae

Second-declension noun, singular only.

• “Eurystheus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press