Unchanged by any teller — how the centuries since have seen Hippocoon.
In play
WORK · c. 1st–2nd century ADREAD MORE ↗
Bibliotheca (Hippocoon and Heracles)
Apollodorus
Apollodorus tells how Hippocoon and his sons drove Tyndareus from Sparta until Heracles slew them and restored the throne — the Lacedaemonian usurper of the Heracles cycle.
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Description of Greece (Sparta)
Pausanias
Pausanias keeps Hippocoon in the Spartan king-list and the Heracles vendetta that reseats Tyndareus — local Laconia’s memory of the coup.