Eurystheus

== English == === Etymology === Borrowing from Ancient Greek Εὐρυσθεύς (Eurustheús). === Pronunciation === (General American) IPA(key): /juˈɹɪs.θiˌəs/ === Proper noun === Eurystheus (Greek mythology) A Mycenaean king of Tiryns (or, according to some authors, of Argos), in Argolis, who imposed the twelve labours on Heracles. ==== Usage notes ==== Eurystheus appears (as king of Argos) in Euripides' Heracleidae ("Children of Heracles"). ==== Derived terms ==== Eurysthean ==== Translations ==== == Latin == === Etymology === From Ancient Greek Εὐρυσθεύς (Eurustheús). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ɛu̯ˈrys.tʰɛu̯s] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [eu̯ˈris.teu̯s] === Proper noun === Eurystheus m sg (genitive Eurystheī); second declension Eurystheus, son of Sthenelus, grandson of Perseus, and king of Mycenae ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun, singular only. === References === “Eurystheus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press