When Hercules was sailing from Troy, Hera sent
grievous storms,1 which so
vexed Zeus that he hung her from Olympus.2
Hercules sailed to Cos,3 and the Coans, thinking he
was leading a piratical squadron, endeavored to prevent his approach by a shower of
stones. But he forced his way in and took the city by night, and slew the king, Eurypylus,
son of Poseidon by Astypalaea. And Hercules was
wounded in the battle by Chalcedon; but Zeus snatched him away, so that he took no harm.
And having laid waste Cos, he came through Athena's agency to Phlegra, and sided with the
gods in their victorious war on the giants.4
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1 See Hom. Il. 14.249ff., Hom. Il. 15.24ff.
2 See Apollod. 1.3.5.
3 With the following account of Herakles's adventures in Cos, compare the Scholiasts on Hom. Il. i.590, xiv.255; Tzetzes, Chiliades ii.445; Ov. Met. 7.363ff. The Scholiast on Hom. Il. xiv.255 tells us that the story was found in Pherecydes, whom Apollodorus probably follows in the present passage.
4 See Apollod. 1.6.1ff.
Apollodorus. Apollodorus, The Library, with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. Includes Frazer's notes.
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