Heracles
Family: Lacedaemonians · Role: founder · First appears: Book 6, section 3, part 1/2
Heracles was the first founder of Lacedaemon. Triptolemus is described as having first shown his ancestors the mystic rites of Demeter and Core and given Peloponnesus the seed of Demeter’s corn-fruits.
The Athenians stopped Eurystheus’s oppression and saved Heracles’s sons. Later, Archidamus stood on his right wing beside a sacred enclosure and statue of Heracles, described as his great ancestor.
Relationship record
Life events
- The Athenians stopped Eurystheus’s oppression and saved the sons of Heracles.(Book 6, section 5, part 4/4)
- With: Eurystheus
- “Fair, also, was that achievement when you stayed the insolence of Eurystheus and saved the sons of Heracles;”
Book 6, section 3, part 1/2
- with Triptolemus (Triptolemus showed Heracles the mystic rites.) “It were just and right on our parts even to refuse to bear arms against each other; since, as the story runs, the first strangers to whom our forefather Triptolemus showed the unspeakable mystic rites of Demeter and Core, the mother and the maiden, were your ancestors;--I speak of Heracles, the first founder of your state, and of your two citizens, the great twin sons of Zeus--and to Peloponnesus first he gave as a gift the seed of Demeter's corn-fruits.”
Book 6, section 5, part 4/4
- with Eurystheus (Their connection is described through Eurystheus's insolence and the rescue of Heracles's sons.) “Fair, also, was that achievement when you stayed the insolence of Eurystheus and saved the sons of Heracles; but fairer still than that will your deed be if you rescue from destruction, not the primal authors merely, but the whole city which they founded;”
Book 7, section 1, part 3/4
- elder kin: Archidamus “and it so happened that on his right wing there stood a sacred enclosure and a statue of Heracles, his great ancestor.”
- with Archidamus (Heracles is identified as Archidamus's great ancestor.) “on his right wing there stood a sacred enclosure and a statue of Heracles, his great ancestor.”
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