... receive Heracles alive? I certainly left him alive and well, in vigorous health, unburdened by disease. Where, tell me—in his ancestral land, or on barbarian soil? There is a headland of Euboea , where to Cenaean Zeus he marks out altars and fruitful ground in tribute. In payment of a vow, or at the command of an oracle? For a vow, made when he was seeking to conquer and plunder the cou...