Eryx

Role: king in Sicily · First appears: Book 3 · Chapter 16

In Book 3, Chapter 16, Eryx, king in Sicily, wrestled Hercules in an agreed contest: Eryx staked his land against Hercules’ oxen, while Hercules staked the oxen of Geryon. Hercules defeated and killed Eryx, and the contest’s terms meant the land would be Hercules’ if he won.

In Book 4, Chapter 36, Eryx is again described as having staked his kingdom against Hercules for the oxen from Erythea. In Book 8, Chapter 24, Eryx is named as Psophis’ father; he entrusted her to Lycortas, a friend of his.

Relationship record

Life events

• Hercules killed Eryx after defeating him in their agreed contest.(Book 3 · Chapter 16 · 📍 Eryx)
  • With: Hercules
  • “For Hercules killed Eryx, but the people of Segeste nearly annihilated Dorieus and his army.”
• Eryx staked his kingdom against Hercules for the oxen from Erythea.(Book 4 · Chapter 36 · 📍 Sicily)
  • With: Hercules
  • “when he wrestled with Hercules he staked his kingdom against them.”

Book 3 · Chapter 16

• rivals with Hercules “For there is a tradition that Eryx and Hercules wrestled on the following conditions”
• with Hercules (interaction) “For there is a tradition that Eryx and Hercules wrestled on the following conditions, that if Hercules conquered the land of Eryx should be his, but if Eryx conquered the oxen of Geryon”

Book 4 · Chapter 36

• with Hercules (Eryx wrestled with Hercules and wagered his kingdom against the oxen.) “when he wrestled with Hercules he staked his kingdom against them.”
• rivals with Hercules (Eryx wrestled Hercules in a contest over the oxen.) “when he wrestled with Hercules he staked his kingdom against them”

Book 8 · Chapter 24

• child: Psophis (daughter of Eryx) “Psophis was the daughter of Eryx”
• friends with Lycortas “intrusted her to Lycortas, a friend of his”

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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.