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by Micha F. Lindemans

The king of Oeschalia in Thessaly. He promised the hand of his daughter Iole to everyone who would beat his sons in a contest with bow and arrow. Heracles won the contest but Eurytus denied him his daughter's hand, so Heracles killed him and his sons and abducted Iole.