Editing Heracles (section)

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[[File:NAMA Héraclès & Busiris.jpg|thumb|right|Heracles fighting the servants of the Egyptian King
[[Busiris (Greek mythology)|Busiris]], Attic ''[[Pelike]]'', c. 470 BCE]]
* Heracles defeated the [[Bebryces]] (ruled by King [[Mygdon of Phrygia|Mygdon]]) and gave their land to Prince [[Lycus (son of Dascylus)|Lycus]] of [[Mysia]], son of [[Dascylus]].
* He killed the robber [[Termerus]].
* Heracles visited [[Evander (philosopher)|Evander]] with Antor, who then stayed in Italy.
* Heracles killed King [[Amyntor (son of Ormenus)|Amyntor]] of [[Ormenium]] for not allowing him into his kingdom. He also killed King [[Emathion]] of [[Arabia]].
* Heracles kills the Egyptian King [[Busiris (Greek mythology)|Busiris]] and his followers after they attempt to sacrifice him to the gods.
* Heracles killed [[Lityerses]] after beating him in a contest of harvesting.
* Heracles killed [[Periclymenus]] at [[Pylos]].
* Heracles killed [[Syleus (mythology)|Syleus]] for forcing strangers to hoe a vineyard.
* Heracles rivaled with [[Lepreus (mythology)|Lepreus]] and eventually killed him.
* Heracles founded the city [[Taranto|Tarentum]] (modern [[Taranto]] in Italy).
* Heracles learned music from [[Linus (mythology)|Linus]] (and [[Eumolpus]]), but killed him after Linus corrected his mistakes and caned him with rods. He learned how to wrestle from [[Autolycus]]. He killed the famous boxer [[Eryx (mythology)|Eryx]] of [[Sicily]] in a match.
* Heracles was an [[Argonauts|Argonaut]].<ref name="1.9.16"/>  He killed [[Alastor]] and his brothers.
[[File:Herakles och Antaios, Nordisk familjebok.png|thumb|Heracles killing the giant, [[Antaeus]]]]
* When [[Hippocoon]] overthrew his brother, [[Tyndareus]], as King of [[Sparta]], Heracles reinstated the rightful ruler and killed Hippocoon and his sons.
* Heracles killed [[Cycnus (son of Ares)|Cycnus]], the son of [[Ares]]. The expedition against Cycnus, in which Iolaus accompanied Heracles, is the ostensible theme of a short epic attributed to [[Hesiod]], ''[[Shield of Heracles]]''. 
* When Ares tried to avenge Cycnus, Heracles defeated him, with the help of [[Athena]].
* Heracles killed the [[Giants (Greek mythology)|Giants]] [[Alcyoneus]] and [[Porphyrion]].
* Heracles killed [[Antaeus]] the giant who was immortal while touching the earth, by picking him up and holding him in the air while strangling him.
* [[Pygmy (Greek mythology)|Pygmies]] tried to kill Heracles because they were brothers of Antaeus and wanted to avenge Antaeus's death, but failed.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://topostext.org/work/225#2.22.1|title=ToposText|website=topostext.org}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://scaife.perseus.org/reader/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg1600.tlg001.perseus-grc2:2.22.1/|title=Scaife Viewer &#124; Imagines, Flavii Philostrati Opera Volume II|website=scaife.perseus.org}}</ref>
* Heracles went to war with [[Augeias]] after he denied him a promised reward for clearing his stables. Augeias remained undefeated due to the skill of his two generals, the Molionides, and after Heracles fell ill, his army was badly beaten. Later, however, he was able to ambush and kill the Molionides, and thus march into Elis, sack it, and kill Augeias and his sons.
* Heracles visited the house of [[Admetus]] on the day Admetus's wife, [[Alcestis]], had agreed to die in his place. Admetus, not wanting to turn Heracles away, nor wanting to burden him with his sadness, welcomes him and instructs the servants not to inform Heracles of what has occurred. Heracles, thus unaware of Alcestis's fate, enjoys the hospitality of Admetus's house, drinking and revelling, which angers the servants, who wish to mourn as is their right. One scolds the guest and Heracles is ashamed of his actions. By hiding beside the grave of Alcestis, Heracles was able to surprise Death when he came to collect her, and by squeezing him tight until he relented, was able to persuade Death to return Alcestis to her husband.
* Heracles challenged wine god [[Dionysus]] to a drinking contest and lost, resulting in his joining the [[Thiasus]] for a period.
* Heracles also appears in [[Aristophanes]]'s ''[[The Frogs]]'', in which Dionysus seeks out the hero to find a way to the underworld. Heracles is greatly amused by Dionysus's appearance and jokingly offers several ways to commit suicide before finally offering his knowledge of how to get to there.
* Heracles appears as the ancestral hero of Scythia in Herodotus's text. While Heracles is sleeping out in the wilderness, a half-woman, half-snake creature steals his horses. Heracles eventually finds the creature, but she refuses to return the horses until he has sex with her. After doing so, he takes back his horses, but before leaving, he hands over his belt and bow, and gives instructions as to which of their children should found a new nation in Scythia.
* In the fifth book of the ''New History'', ascribed by [[Photius]] to [[Ptolemy Hephaestion]], mention that Heracles did not wear the skin of the Nemean lion, but that of a certain Lion giant killed by Heracles whom he had challenged to single combat.<ref>[http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/photius_copyright/photius_05bibliotheca.htm Ptolemy Hephaestion, New History Book 5] "Heracles did not wear the skin of the Nemean lion, but that of a certain Lion, one of the giants killed by Heracles whom he had challenged to single combat."</ref>
* Heracles fought and killed [[Cacus]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:2008.01.0572:book=1:chapter=39:section=2|title=Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books I-XX, book 1, chapter 39, section 2|website=www.perseus.tufts.edu}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0007.tlg113.perseus-grc1:18|title=Plutarch, Amatorius, section 18|website=www.perseus.tufts.edu}}</ref>
* Heracles fought with the [[Sicani]] people, killing many including the famous [[Leucaspis]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0060.tlg001.perseus-grc1:4.23|title=Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, Books I-V, book 4, chapter 23|website=www.perseus.tufts.edu}}</ref>
* Heracles encountered [[Scylla]] during a journey to Sicily and slew her.