Eurystheus

[yoo-ris-thee-uhs, -thyoos, yuh-]

Eu·rys·the·us

[yoo-ris-thee-uhs, -thyoos, yuh-]
noun Classical Mythology.
a king of Mycenae and cousin of Hercules, upon whom he imposed 12 labors.
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Eurystheus is always a great word to know.
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the greatest Greek warrior in the Trojan War, hero of Homer's Iliad, who was killed when Paris wounded him in the heel, his one vulnerable spot
the present age, following the bronze age; the last and worst of the four ages of the human race, characterized by danger, corruption, and toil
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Eurystheus (jʊˈrɪsθjuːs, -θɪəs)
 
n
Greek myth a grandson of Perseus, who, through the favour of Hera, inherited the kingship of Mycenae, which Zeus had intended for Hercules

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