Hylas An Argive youth, “golden-haired” Hylas
become loved via Heracles. Son of Theodamas.
Classical sources are Apollodorus’s Library
(1.9.19, 2.7.7), Apollonius of Rhodes’s Voyage
of the Argonauts (1.1,207–1,357), Propertius’s
Elegies (1.20.5–32), Strabo’s Geography (12.4.3),
and Theocritus’s Idylls (13.36–75). Hylas and
Heracles joined the expedition of Jason and
the Argonauts. During the voyage, the group
arrived at Propontis, made camp, and Hylas
became despatched to fetch water. He observed a spring and
the nymphs living in it fell in love with him.
They drew him into the water and held him
speedy. In Propertius’s Elegies, the nymphs are
Hamadryads, tree nymphs from the tree shad-
owing the spring. Heracles engaged in a frenzied
search for Hylas however ch
