Events mentioned in: Apollodorus - Library and Epitome: Library, Book 2
- Hercules kills Linus
- Hercules frees Prometheus
- Bellerophon kills the Chimera
- Hercules kills sons of Neleus
- Aegialia named after Aegialeus
- Phoroneus rules the Peloponnese
- Apis and Niobe born
- Apis is killed
- Zeus has sex with Niobe
- Argos rules the Peloponnese, calls it Argos
- Argos marries and has children
- Criasus rules the Peloponnese
- Argus kills a bull in Arcadia
- Argus kills a cattle-thieving satyr on behalf of the Arcadians
- Argus kills Echidna
- Argus avenges the murder of Apis
- Zeus seduces Io
- Zeus turns Io into a cow to conceal her from Hera
- Argus guards Io, the cow
- Zeus orders Hermes to rescue Io from Argus
- Hermes kills Argus and rescues the cow Io
- Io, pursued by a gadfly from Hera, comes to the Ionian gulf
- Io is pursued by the gadfly to Scythia
- Io is pursued by the gadfly to the Bosphorus
- Io is pursued by the gadfly to the Cimmerian Lands
- Io is pursued by the gadfly to Illyria
- Io is pursued by the gadfly to Mount Haemus
- Io regains human form and gives birth
- Hera instructs the Curetes to abduct Epaphus
- The Curetes abduct Epaphus
- Zeus kills the Curetes
- Io finds her son in Syria with the wife of King Byblus
- Io and Telegonus get married
- Epaphus married Memphis
- Epaphus founds Memphis
- Epaphus and Memphis have a daughter, Libya
- Belus rules over Egypt
- Belus gets married and has children
- Danaus lives in Libya
- Egyptus lives in Arabia
- Egyptus takes over Egypt
- Danaus flees with his fifty daughters to Rhodes
- Danaus takes over Argos from King Gelanor
- Poseidon dries up all the water in Argos
- Inachus claims that Argos belongs to Hera
- Poseidon rescues Amymone from a satyr
- Poseidon shows Amymone the springs at Lerna
- The Danaids kill their bridegrooms
- The Danaids bury the heads of their murdered husbands
- Nauplius sails the sea, lures people to death with a beacon
- Lynceus rules Argos
- Abas is born
- Acrisius and Proetus are born
- Acrisius and Proetus fight for the kingdom, invent shields
- Proetus expelled to Lycia, marries Antia
- Proteus regains Argos with the help of a Lycian army
- Proetus occupies Tiryns
- The Cyclopes fortify Tiryns for Proetus
- Acrisius reigns over Argos
- Danae and the daughters of Proetus are driven insane as punishment for impiety
- Danae and the daughters of Proetus roam over Argive territory
- Danae and the daughters of Proetus roam through Arcadia
- Danae and the daughters of Proetus roam through the Peloponnese
- Melampus agrees to cure the women driven mad by Dionysus
- Melampus and Bias each receive a third of Argos from Proetus
- Melampus cures women driven insane by Dionysus
- Iphinoe is killed in an attempt to cure her insanity
- Bellerophon kills his brother
- Bellerophon is purified by Proetus of the murder of his brother
- Bellerophon rejects Stheneboea’s sexual advances, and is falsely accused of propositioning her
- Bellerophon delivers a letter to Iobates with instructions that Bellerophon be killed
- Proetus instructs Bellerophon to take a letter to Iobates with instructions that Bellerophon be killed
- Iobates sends Bellerophon to fight the Chimera
- Iobates sends Bellerophon to fight the Solymi
- Bellerophon kills the Solymi
- Iobates sends Bellerophon to kill the Amazons
- Iobates sends a group of Lycian fighters to kill Bellerophon
- Bellerophon kills a group of Lycians lying in ambush to kill him
- Acrisius receives a prophecy that his daughter will have a son who will kill him
- Acrisius imprisons Danae underground
- Danae is impregnated by a god
- Acrisius sets Danae and Perseus adrift in a chest in the sea
- Danae and Perseus float adrift in a chest in the sea
- Dictys adopts Perseus
- The chest containing Danae and Perseus washes up on the shore in Seriphus
- Perseus prevents Polydectes from courting Danae
- Polydectes sends Perseus to retrieve the Gorgon’s head
- Hermes and Athena help Perseus with his quest for the Gorgon’s head
- Perseus gets help from daughters of Phorcus by holding their eye and their tooth hostage
- Perseus gets winged sandals, a hat, and a kibisis from some nymphs
- Perseus gets an adamantine sickle from Hermes
- Perseus beheads Medusa born
- Pegasus and Chrysaor are born from Medusa’s severed neck
- Perseus escapes the Gorgons with his hat of invisibility
- Cassiepea angers the Nereids by claiming to be more beautiful than they
- Poseidon sends a flood and a monster to punish Cassiepea’s hubris
- Perseus rescues Andromeda
- Andromeda is set out to be eaten by a monster
- Perseus turns Phineus and his co-conspirators into stone
- Dictys and Danae take refuge from Polydectes at an altar
- Perseus turns Polydectes and his fellow conspirators into stone
- Dictys rules as king of Seriphus
- Perseus gives the sandals, hat and kibisis to Hermes
- Perseus gives the Gorgon’s head to Athena
- Hermes gives the sandals, hat and kibisis back to the nymphs
- Perseus, Danae and Andromeda go to see Acrisius
- Acrisius goes to the Pelasgians to avoid Perseus
- Perseus kills Acrisius while competing in Teutamides’ games
- Perseus switches kingdoms with Megapenthes, and rules Tiryns
- Megapenthes takes over Argos from Perseus
- Perseus fortifies Midea
- Perseus fortifies Mycenae
- Perseus gives his son Perses to Cepheus to raise
- Perseus fathers children
- Poseidon carries off and impregnates Hippothoe
- Taphius colonizes Taphos
- Poseidon makes Pterelaus immortal
- Eurystheus reigns over Mycenae
- Hera persuades the Ilithyias to delay Heracles’ birth
- Zeus declares that the descendant of Perseus about to be born will rule Mycenae
- Eurystheus is born early thanks to Hera’s intervention
- Electryon is challenged for control of Mycenae by the sons of Pterelaus
- The sons of Electryon and the sons of Pterelaus kill each other
- Surviving Taphians from Mycenae take cattle to the Eleans
- Amphitryon ransoms cattle from Polyxenus
- Amphitryon returns cattle to Mycenae
- Electryon entrusts Mycenae and his daughter Alcmena to Amphitryon
- Amphitryon accidentally kills Electryon
- Sthenelus banishes Amphitryon from Argos
- Sthenelus rules Mycenae
- Sthenelus rules Tiryns
- Atreus and Thyestes get Midea from Sthenelus
- Amphitryon, Alcmena and Licymnius are purified by Creon
- Amphitryon gives Perimede to Licymnius
- Alcmena agrees to marry Amphitryon if he will avenge her brothers’ deaths
- The Thebans give a child every month to the Cadmean Vixen
- Amphitryon unsuccessfully attempts to stop the vixen ravaging the Cadmea
- Amphitryon visits Cephalus to fetch a hunting dog for the Cadmean Vixen
- Procris gets a dog as a gift from Minos
- Amphitryon and Cephalus hunt the Cadmean vixen with Procris’ dog
- Zeus turns the Cadmean vixen and the dog chasing it into stone
- Amphitryon and allies attack the islands of the Taphians
- Cephalus comes to join the Amphitryon’s fight against the Taphians
- Panopeus comes to join the Amphitryon’s fight against the Taphians
- Heleus comes to join the Amphitryon’s fight against the Taphians
- Creon comes to join the Amphitryon’s fight against the Taphians
- Comaetho kills her father by pulling out his golden hair
- Amphitryon takes over the Taphian islands
- Amphitryon kills Comaetho
- Amphitryon carries off booty after defeating the Taphians
- Heleus and Cephalus rule the islands of the Taphians
- Heleus founds a city and names it after himself
- Cephalus founds a city and names it after himself
- Zeus, disguised as Amphitryon, has sex with Alcmena
- Amphitryon learns from Tiresias that Zeus has had sex with Alcmena
- Hercules and Iphicles born
- Two snakes sent by Hera attack Hercules and Iphicles in their crib
- Hercules taught to drive a chariot
- Hercules taught to wrestle
- Hercules taught to shoot a bow
- Hercules taught to fence
- Linus teaches Hercules to play the lyre
- Hercules is tried and acquitted for the murder of Linus
- Hercules lives on a cattle farm
- Hercules kills the Cithaeronian lion, dresses himself in its skin
- Hercules impregnates each of Thespius’ fifty daughters
- Hercules mutilates Erginus’ heralds
- Perieres gives Clymenus a fatal wound
- Clymenus instructs Erginus to avenge his death as he dies
- Erginus attacks and wins tribute from the Thebans
- Erginus attacks Thebes for a second time
- Hercules kills Erginus
- Hercules receives weapons from Athena
- Amphitryon dies
- Hercules and Megara get married and have children
- Rhadamanthys and Alcmena get married
- Rhadamanthys and Alcmena live in Ocaleae
- Hercules gets a sword from Hermes
- Hercules gets a bow and arrows from Apollo
- Hercules gets a breastplate from Hephaestus
- Hercules gets a robe from Athena
- Hercules cuts himself a club at Nemea
- Hera drives Hercules insane
- Hercules kills his children
- Hercules kills Iphicles’ children
- Hercules is purified of the murder of the children
- Hercules asks the oracle at Delphi where he should live
- Hercules enters into the service of Eurystheus
- Hercules stays with Molorchus on his way to Nemea
- Hercules kills the Nemean Lion
- Hercules comes back to Molorchus with the body of the Nemean Lion
- Hercules brings the corpse of the Nemean Lion to Mycenae
- Copreus kills Iphitus
- Copreus purified of murder by Eurystheus
- Hercules kills the Lernaean hydra at the Springs of Amymone.
- Hercules buries the hydra on the road from Lerna to Elaeus
- Hercules starts hunting the Cerynitian hind
- Cerynitian hind goes to Artemisius while pursued by Hercules
- Artemis confronts Hercules about his interference with the Cerynitian hind
- Hercules shoots but does not kill the Cerynitian hind
- Hercules carries the Cerynitian hind through Arcadia
- Hercules brings the Cerynitian hind to Mycenae
- Erymanthian boar attacks Psophis
- Hercules is a guest of Pholus
- Hercules fends off an attack by wine-seeking centaurs
- Hercules fights the centaurs, accidentally giving Chiron an incurable wound
- Chiron attacked by Lapiths
- Chiron lives in Malea
- Prometheus takes on Chiron’s immortality so that Chiron can die
- Eurytion flees to Pholoe after Hercules’ attack
- Nessus flees to Evenus after Hercules’ attack
- A group of centaurs is hidden in a mountain by Poseidon after Hercules’ attack
- Pholus has accidentally kills himself with a poisoned arrow
- Hercules discovers Pholus’ corpse
- Hercules captures the Erythmantian boar
- Hercules brings the Erymanthian boar to Mycenae
- Eurystheus orders Hercules to clean Augeas’ stables
- Augeas agrees to give Hercules cattle if Hercules cleans his stables
- Hercules diverts the course of a river to clean Augeas’ stables
- Augeas reneges on his promise to give Hercules cattle
- Phyleus testifies on Hercules’ behalf against Augeas
- Augeas expels Phyleus and Hercules from Elis
- Phyleus lives in exile in Dulichium
- Hercules kills Eurytion rescuing Mnesimache from forced marriage to him
- Eurystheus refused to count the cleaning of the Augean stables as one of Hercules’ tasks
- Hercules drives away the Stymphalian birds
- Athena gives Hercules bronze rattles to scare away the Stymphalian birds
- Hephaestus gives Athena bronze rattles for scaring away the Stymphalian birds
- Eurystheus commands Heracles to chase away the Stymphalian birds
- Zeus kidnaps Europa
- Eurystheus orders Hercules to bring him the Cretan bull
- Poseidon sends up a bull for Minos which Minos promises but fails to sacrifice
- Hercules hunts the Cretan bull
- Hercules brings the Cretan bull to Eurystheus
- Cretan bull wanders
- Cretan bull harasses the inhabitants of Marathon
- Eurystheus orders Hercules to bring him the mares of Diomedes
- Diomedes rules the Bistones
- Hercules and his companions attack the Bistones and capture the mares of Diomedes.
- The mares of Diomedes kill Abderus
- Hercules founds Abdera beside Abderus’ grave
- Hercules brings the mares of Diomedes to Eurystheus
- The mares of Diomedes killed by wild animals
- Eurystheus order Hercules to bring him the belt of Hippolyte
- Hercules and his companions fight the sons of Minos, Hercules kills them
- The sons of Androgeus join Hercules’ expedition
- Hercules and crew help Lycus in a battle against King Mygdon of the Bebryces
- Hercules installs Lycus as king in the land of the Bebryces, renamed Heraclea
- Hippolyte agrees to give Hercules her belt
- Hera tricks the Amazons into attacking Hercules
- Hercules kills Hippolyte and takes her belt
- Apollo and Poseidon send a plague and a sea monster
- Laomedon exposes Hesione to be devoured by a sea monster
- Zeus gives Laomedon mares in compensation for abducting Ganymede
- Hercules rescues Hesione
- Apollo and Poseidon fortify Troy
- Poltys hosts Hercules
- Hercules kills Sarpedon
- Hercules conquers Thasos
- Hercules gives control of Thasos to the sons of Androgeus
- Hercules kills Polygonus and Telegonus
- Hercules delivers Hippolyte’s belt to Eurystheus
- Eurystheus orders Hercules to bring him Geryon’s cows
- Hercules visits Libya on the way to get Geryon’s cows
- Hercules puts up pillars at the mouth of the Mediterranean
- Helios gives Hercules a golden goblet in which to cross the sea
- Hercules crosses the sea in a golden goblet
- Hercules captures Geryon’s cows
- Menoetes pastures Hades’ cows
- Menoetes reports Hercules’ cattle theft to Geryon
- Geryon makes arrangements for the care and protection of his cattle
- Hercules kills Geryon
- Hercules gives the golden cup back to Helios
- Hercules transports Geryon’s cattle across the sea in the golden cup
- Hercules kills Ialebion and Dercynus
- Hercules drives Geryon’s cows through Tyrrhenia
- Hercules drives Geryon’s cows through Abderia
- A bull from Geryon’s herd escapes Hercules
- Hercules arrives in pursuit of a bull from Geryon’s herd
- Hercules passes through Italy in pursuit of an escaped bull from Geryon’s herd
- Hercules kills Eryx in a wrestling match
- Eryx discovers and appropriates a bull escaped from Geryon’s herd
- Hercules entrusts Geryon’s herd to Hephaestus
- Hercules drives the herd of Geryon’s cows to the Ionian Gulf
- Hera disperses the cows of Geryon with a gadfly
- Hercules recaptures some of the dispersed cattle of Geryon
- Hercules fills the river Strymon with rocks
- Hercules brings Geryon’s cattle to Eurystheus
- Eurystheus orders Hercules to bring him the golden apples
- Gaia presents Zeus with golden apples on the occasion of his marriage to Hera
- Golden apples guarded by the Hesperides
- Hercules fights Cycnus
- Hercules passes through Illyria on his way to get the golden apples
- Hercules fights with Nereus and forces him to reveal the location of the golden apples
- Hercules passes through Lybia on his way to get the golden apples
- Hercules kills King Antaeus
- Hercules passes through Egypt on his way to get the golden apples
- Hercules kills King Busiris and his son Amphidamas
- Phrasius the seer leaves Cyprus to go to Egypt
- Phrasius advises the Egyptians to make human sacrifices to Zeus
- Hercules steals a bull and eats it
- Hercules kills Emathion
- Hercules gets a goblet from Helios on his way to get the golden apples
- Hercules takes over holding up the sky for Atlas
- Atlas retrieves the golden apples from the Hesperides
- Hercules tricks Atlas into resuming the task of holding up the sky
- Hercules brings the golden apples to Eurystheus
- Hercules gives the golden apples to Athena
- Hercules kills the snake guarding the golden apples
- Athena brings the golden apples back to the Hesperides
- Hercules goes to be initiated into the Eleusinian Mysteries
- Hercules comes to the entrance to Hades
- Hercules goes to Hades to get Cerberus
- Hercules meets the ghost of Meleager in Hades
- Hercules meets the ghost of Medusa in Hades
- Hercules removes the heavy stone from Ascalaphus
- Hercules kills one of Hades’ cows
- Hercules wrestles with Menoetes
- Pirithous punished in Hades for making advances on Persephone
- Hercules brings Cerberus up from Hades
- Demeter turns Ascalaphus into an owl
- Hercules shows Cerberus to Eurystheus
- Hercules bring Cerberus back to Hades
- Hercules gives Megara to Iolaus
- Hercules wins Eurytus’ contest to marry Iole, but isn’t allowed to marry her
- Autolycus steals some cattle
- Iphitus and Hercules go in search of cattle
- Hercules kills Iphitus
- Neleus refuses to purify Hercules of the murder of Iphitus
- The Pythia refuses to purify Hercules of the murder of Iphitus
- Hercules is purified of the murder of Iphitus by Deiphobus
- Hercules tries to loot the temple at Delphi
- Zeus separates the battling Apollo and Hercules with a thunderbolt
- Timolus rules Lydia, Omphale takes over after he dies
- Hermes sells Hercules to Omphale
- Eurytus refuses compensation for the murder of Iphitus
- Hercules binds the Cercopes
- Hercules kills Syleus and Xenodice
- Hercules buries Icarus
- Daedalus makes a statue in honour of Hercules
- Hercules throws a stone at the statue of himself
- Theseus clears out evil-doers from the Isthmus
- Hercules musters a group of volunteers to sail to Troy
- Hercules takes Troy
- Hera sends storms against Hercules on his way back from Troy
- Zeus hangs Hera from Olympus
- Hercules captures Cos and kills King Eurypylus on his way back from Troy
- Eurypylus rules Cos
- Athena brings Hercules to Phlegra to help with the war with the giants
- Hercules collects the Arcadian army and gathers volunteers to march against Augeas
- Augeas appoints Eurytus and Cteatus generals in anticipation of Hercules’ arrival
- Eurytus and Cteatus attack Hercules after a truce has been agreed
- Hercules concludes a truce with the Molionides because of his illness
- Hercules kills Eurytus and Cteatus on their way to the Isthmian festival
- Hercules takes Elis, kills Augeas and sons, and restores Phyleus to power.
- Hercules kills Augeas and his sons
- Hercules gives control of Elis to Phyleus
- Hercules wounds Hades
- Nestor brought up by the Gerenians
- Hippocoon rules in Lacedaemon
- Hercules takes Sparta with Cepheus and sons and kills Hippocoon and sons
- Hercules reestablishes Tyndareus as ruler of Sparta
- Iphicles is killed in battle
- Hercules persuades Cepheus and his sons to join him in marching against Lacedaemon
- Athena gives Hercules some of the Gorgon’s hair in a jar
- Tyndareus rules Lacedaemon
- Hercules impregnates Auge
- Auge gives birth to Telephus and places him in the precinct of Athena
- Auge’s father discovers her baby Telephus in the precinct of Athena
- Baby Telephus is exposed
- Telephus is nursed by a doe
- Auge’s father gives her to Nauplius
- Nauplius gives Auge to Teuthras, they get married
- Teuthras rules Teuthrania
- Hercules gets the horn of Amalthea from Achelous
- Hercules and the Calydonians attack the Thesprotians, take the city
- Hercules fathers Tlepolemus by Astyoche
- Phylas rules Ephyra
- Thespius sends Hercules’ sons abroad at Hercules’ request
- Three of Hercules’ sons arrive in Thebes at Hercules’ request
- Forty of Hercules’ sons found a colony
- Hercules accidentally kills Eunomos
- Architeles pardons Hercules for the death of Eunomos
- Hercules exiles himself from Calydon in expiation for the murder of Eunomos
- Hercules kills Nessus
- Nessus tries to rape Deianira whilst ferrying her across a river
- At Nessus’ instruction Deianira collects Nessus’ bodily fluids for use as a love charm
- Hercules eats one of Thiodamas’ bullocks
- Hercules vists Ceyx, conquers the Dryopes
- The Lapiths make war against the Dorians
- Hercules fights with Aegimius against the Lapiths and defeats them
- Hercules kills Coronus
- Hercules kills Laogoras and his children
- Hercules kills Cycnus
- Hercules kills Amyntor
- Amyntor rules Ormenium
- Hercules musters an army of Arcadians, Melians and Locrians to attack Oechalia
- Hercules’ army takes the Oechalia.
- Hercules kills Eurytus and his sons while taking Oechalia
- Hippasus, Argius and Melas die while taking Oechalia
- Hercules takes Iole captive
- Hercules builds a temple of Cenaean Zeus
- Hercules sends Lichas to fetch clothes from Deianira
- Deianira unwittingly applies poison to Hercules’ clothes
- Hercules is burned by the poison tunic, kills Lichas
- Hercules, mutilated by the cloak, returns home to Trachis
- Deianira kills herself upon discovering the truth about the poison cloak
- Hercules burns himself on a pyre, lit by Poeas
- Hercules becomes a god
- Hercules gives Poeas his bow
- Hercules’ sons flee to Ceyx
- Hercules sons flee from Eurystheus
- Eurystheus goes to war with the Athenians
- Eurystheus’ sons are killed in his war against the Athenians
- Hercules’ sons take sanctuary at an altar in Athens
- Hyllus gives Eurystheus’ severed head to Alcmena
- Hyllus cuts off Eurystheus’ head
- The sons of Hercules conquer the Peloponnese.
- The Peloponnese is struck by a plague
- An oracle declares that the plague in the Peloponnese is being caused by the sons of Heracles
- The sons of Heracles are forced to leave the Peloponnese
- The sons of Heracles settle in Marathon
- Tlepolemus accidentally kills Licymnius
- Tlepolemus and some of the other sons of Hercules flee to Rhodes
- Hyllus marries Iole
- Hyllus consults the Delphic oracle about the return of the Heraclids to the Peloponnese
- Hyllus, misinterpreting the Delphic oracle, attacks the Peloponnese again too soon.
- Aristomachus is killed during Hyllus’ attack on the Peloponnese
- Sons of Cleodaeus consult the oracle about the return of the Heraclids to the Peloponnese
- Temenus musters ships for an attack against the Peloponnese
- Hippotes kills a soothsayer
- The Heraclid’s army is forced to disband
- Temenus consults the oracle about the return of the Heraclids to the Peloponnese and is instructed to take the “Three-Eyed One” as guide.
- Oxylus lives in Elis while in exile
- Oxylus commits murder
- Oxylus is made the guide of the Heraclids on their campaign for the recapture of Aetolia
- Heraclids fight for the Peloponnese and capture it
- Tisamenus, Pamphylus and Dymas die in the Heraclids’ capture of the Peloponnese
- Temenus, Procles, Eurysthenes and Cresphontes draw lots for shares of the Peloponnese
- Cresphontes becomes ruler of Messene in the drawing of lots
- Temenus becomes ruler of Argos through a drawing of lots
- Procles and Eurysthenes become the rulers of Sparta in the drawing of lots
- Signs are found on the altars where the Heraclids sacrificed after victory over the Peloponnese
- Temenus is murdered by an assassin hired by his sons
- Temenus’ sons hire someone to murder their father
- Cresphontes murdered with two of his sons
- Polyphontes takes over Messene after the murder of Cresphontes
- Polyphontes marries Merope against her will
- Merope sends Aepytus to her father to raise
- Aepytus is raised by his grandfather
- Aepytus kills Polyphontes
- Aepytus takes control of Messene
- The sons of Alcmaeon kill the sons of Phegeus
- Hercules saves Theseus from Hades
- Hercules fails to rescue Pirithous from Hades
- Nauplius lures ships to their destruction with a beacon
- Zeus abducts Ganymede
- Hippolyte rules over the Amazons
- Founders of Argos find a toad
- Founders of Lacedaemon find a serpent
- Founders of Messene find a fox
- Bellerophon kills the Amazons
- Iobates gives Bellerophon his daughter, Philonoe, in marriage
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