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In Agamemnon’s recollected story, Eurystheus is born in Achaean Argos.
“For Juno darted down from the high summit of Olympus, and went in haste to Achaean Argos where she knew that the noble wife of Sthenelus son of Perseus then was. She being with child and in her seventh month, Juno brought the child to birth though there was a month still wanting,”
Minerva says Eurystheus imposed exhausting labors on Hercules and sent him to Hades for the hell-hound.
“labours Eurystheus had laid on him. He would weep till his cry came up to heaven, and then Jove would send me down to help him; if I had had the sense to foresee all this, when Eurystheus sent him to the house of Hades, to fetch the hell-hound from Erebus”
Juno announces Eurystheus as a fine newborn son of Sthenelus in Jove’s lineage and argues that he should reign over the Argives.
“There is a fine child born this day, Eurystheus, son to Sthenelus the son of Perseus; he is of your lineage; it is well, therefore, that he should reign over the Argives”
Eurystheus is said to impose cruel labours that make Hercules groan.
“the cruel labours that Eurystheus laid upon him”
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“the labours Eurystheus had laid on him”
“King Eurystheus to mighty Hercules”
“Eurystheus, son to Sthenelus the son of Perseus”