HyllosHyllus

The son of Herakles (Heracles) and Deianeira (sometimes his mother is cited as the water nymph, Melite).

There are at least two stories as to how Hyllos died:

1. Hyllos settled on the eastern side of the Adriatic Sea and died there as king and founder of the race of people known as Hylleans; and
2. Herodotus relates the story that when Hyllos tried to return to the Peloponnesian Peninsula he faced the army from Tegea and offered to fight in single combat against one of the Tegean soldiers; the result of the contest would preclude an out-and-out war between the two armies; also, Hyllos said that if he lost the fight, no descendant of Herakles would try to rule the Peloponnesus for one hundred years; according to Herodotus, Hyllos was killed in the fight.

Argonautika, book 4, lines 522-551

Histories, book 9, chapter 26