Abderus

Family: Opus · Role: companion of Hercules · First appears: Apollodorus, Library 2.5

Life events

• Abderus is killed by the mares, and Hercules founds Abdera beside his grave.(Apollodorus, Library 2.5 · 📍 Abdera)
  • With: Heracles
  • “but the mares killed him by dragging him after them. But Hercules fought against the Bistones, slew Diomedes and compelled the rest to flee. And he founded a city Abdera beside the grave of Abderus who had been done to death,”

Apollodorus, Library 2.5

• parent: Hermes “Abderus, who was a son of Hermes, a native of Opus in Locris , and a minion of Hercules”
• employer: Heracles “a minion of Hercules”
• with Heracles (Abderus was Hercules's minion.) “Abderus, who was a son of Hermes, a native of Opus in Locris , and a minion of Hercules;”

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Extracted from the original text of Greek Mythology. Made with Rho MD.