Editing Hylas (section)

=== Heracles ===
After [[Heracles]] killed [[Theiodamas]] in battle, he took on Hylas as his arms-bearer and taught him to be a warrior. The poet [[Theocritus]] (about 300 BC) wrote about the love between Heracles and Hylas:

{{Quote| ''"We are not the first mortals to see beauty in what is beautiful. No, even [[Amphitryon]]'s bronze-hearted son, who defeated the savage [[Nemean lion]], loved a boy—charming Hylas, whose hair hung down in curls. And like a father with a dear son, he taught him all the things which had made him a mighty man, and famous."''}}