Augeas

Family: Elis · Role: king · First appears: Apollodorus, Library 2.5

Life events

• Augeas refuses Hercules’ promised reward and expels Hercules and Phyleus from Elis.(Apollodorus, Library 2.5 · 📍 Elis)
  • With: Heracles Phyleus
  • “In a rage Augeas, before the voting took place, ordered both Phyleus and Hercules to pack out of Elis .”
• Hercules killed Augeas and his sons and restored Phyleus to the kingdom.(Apollodorus, Library 2.7 · 📍 Elis)
  • With: Heracles Phyleus
  • “And having killed Augeas and his sons, he restored Phyleus and bestowed on him the kingdom.”

Apollodorus, Library 2.5

• child: Phyleus “Phyleus was called by Hercules and bore witness against his father”
• with Heracles (Hercules and Augeas made a conditional bargain.) “Hercules accosted him, and without revealing the command of Eurystheus, said that he would carry out the dung in one day, if Augeas would give him the tithe of the cattle.”
• with Phyleus (Phyleus testified against Augeas.) “Phyleus was called by Hercules and bore witness against his father, affirming that he had agreed to give him a reward.”

Apollodorus, Library 2.7

• siblings with Actor “now Actor was a brother of Augeas.”
• child: Epicaste (parent->child) “by Epicaste, daughter of Augeas”
• enemies with Heracles “And having killed Augeas and his sons, he restored Phyleus and bestowed on him the kingdom.”

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