Assisted by the Athenians, they defeat and slay Eurystheus, and regain the Peloponnesus.

A pestilence, regarded as an ominous messenger from offended heaven, drives them again into Attica.

An oracle declares that they shall succeed after the third fruit by the narrow passage at sea.

Wrongly interpreting the oracle, in the third year they make for the Corinthian Isthmus.

At the entrance of the Peloponnesus they are met by the assembled arms of the Achaeans, Ionians, and Arcadians.
Hyllus, the eldest son of Hercules, proposes the issue of a single combat.