Hyllos

Family: Dorian · Role: father of Cleodaios · First appears: Book 6 · §50–57

Life events

The sons of Heracles agreed to leave the Peloponnese for a hundred years if Hyllos lost a single combat.(Book 9 · §26–30 · 📍 the Isthmus)
- With: Heracles
- “they made oath with one another on this condition,—that if Hyllos should conquer the leader of the Peloponnesians, then the sons of Heracles should return to their father's heritage; but he should be conquered, then on the other hand the sons of Heracles should depart and lead away their army, and not within a hundred years attempt to return to the Peloponnese.”
Echemos fought Hyllos in single combat and slew him.(Book 9 · §26–30 · 📍 the Isthmus)
- With: Echemos
- “he fought a single combat and slew Hyllos.”

child: Cleodaios “Aristodemos the son of Aristomachos, the son of Cleodaios, the son of Hyllos,”

child: Cleodaios “the Lacedemonian Leonidas son of Anaxandrides, son of Leon, son of Eurycratides, son of Anaxander, son of Eurycrates, son of Polydoros, son of Alcamenes, son of Teleclos, son of Archelaos, son of Hegesilaos, son of Doryssos, son of Leobotes, son of Echestratos, son of Agis, son of Eurysthenes, son of Aristodemos, son of Aristomachos, son of Cleodaios, son of Hyllos, son of Heracles”

with Leotychides (son of Anaxilaos) (Hyllos is Leotychides's ancestor.) “the son of Cleodaios, the son of Hyllos”
child: Cleodaios “the son of Cleodaios, the son of Hyllos”
parent: Heracles “the son of Hyllos, the son of Heracles”

with Echemos (Echemos fought Hyllos in single combat and slew him.) “There was selected then of all the allies, he himself making a voluntary offer, Echemos the son of Aëropos, the son of Phegeus, who was our commander and king: and he fought a single combat and slew Hyllos.”
parent: Heracles “the sons of Heracles endeavoured after the death of Eurystheus to return to the Peloponnese.”
enemies with Echemos “There was selected then of all the allies, he himself making a voluntary offer, Echemos the son of Aëropos, the son of Phegeus, who was our commander and king: and he fought a single combat and slew Hyllos.”

Extracted from the original text of The Histories. Made with Rho MD.