Editing Eurystheus (section)

===Death===
After Heracles died, Eurystheus remained bitter over the indignity the hero had caused him. He attempted to destroy Heracles' many children (the [[Heracleidae]], led by [[Hyllus]]), who fled to [[Athens]]. He attacked the city but was soundly defeated, and Eurystheus and his sons were killed.<ref name="Apollodorus, 2.8.1"/> Though it is widely told that Hyllus killed Eurystheus, the stories about the killer of Eurystheus and the fate of his corpse vary,<ref>Apollodorus, 3.8.1 and [[Diodorus Siculus]] 4.57 give [[Hyllus]] as the slayer, [[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]] 1.44.10 and [[Strabo]] 7.6.19 give [[Iolaus]].</ref> but the Athenians believed the burial site of Eurystheus remained on their soil and served to protect the country against the descendants of Heracles, who traditionally included the [[Sparta]]ns and [[Argos, Peloponnese|Argives]].<ref name="Duncker1883">{{cite book|author=Maximilian Wolfgang Duncker|title=History of Greece, to the end of the Persian war, tr. by S. F. Alleyne (and E. Abbott).|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JjIOAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA86|year=1883|pages=86–}}</ref>

After Eurystheus' death, the brothers [[Atreus]] and [[Thyestes]], whom he had left in charge during his absence, took over the city, the former exiling the latter and assuming the kingship, while [[Tiryns]] returned to the kingship of [[Argos, Peloponnese|Argos]].