Hyllus

Role: king · First appears: Book IV 5

Life events

• Melite bore Hyllus to Heracles.(Book IV 5 · 📍 land of the Phaeacians)
  • With: Melite Heracles
  • “For he came to the abode of Nausithous and to Macris, the nurse of Dionysus, to cleanse himself from the deadly murder of his children; here he loved and overcame the water nymph Melite, the daughter of the river Aegaeus, and she bare mighty Hyllus.”
• The Mentores slew Hyllus while he fought for his field’s oxen.(Book IV 5 · 📍 Cronian sea)
  • With: Mentores
  • “and there he settled, and the Mentores slew him as he was fighting for the oxen of his field.”

Book IV 5

• parent: Heracles “whom fair Melite bare to Heracles in the land of the Phaeacians”
• parent: Melite “whom fair Melite bare to Heracles in the land of the Phaeacians”
• patron: Nausithous “for the hero King Nausithous aided his journey”
• enemies with Mentores “and the Mentores slew him as he was fighting for the oxen of his field.”

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