Hesiod

“ THE GREAT EOIAE
1.
Epidaurus. According to the opinion of the Argives and the epic poem, the Great Eoiae, Argos the son of Zeus was father of Epidaurus.
2.
And, they say, Hesiod is sufficient to prove that the word ponēros (bad) has the same sense as "laborious" or "ill-fated"; for in the Great Eoiae he represents Alcmene as sajing to Heracles:
"My son, truly Zeus your father begot you to be the most toilful as the most excellent..."; and again: "The Fates (made) you the most toilful and the most excellent..." ”

“ First he cast upon the dogs which were guarding them a stupor and strangles, so that the dogs forgot the cows and lost the power of barking. Then he drove away twelve heifers and a hundred cows never yoked, and the bull who mounted the cows, fastening to the tail of each one brushwood to wipe out the footmarks of the cows. ”

“ Heracles then bade the parents call their son Aias after the eagle (aietos) . ↑ Oenomäus, king of Pisa in Elis, warned by an oracle that he should be killed by his son-in-law, offered his daughter Hippodamia to the man who could defeat him in a chariot race, on condition that the defeated suitors should be slain by him. Ultimately Pelops, through the treachery of the charioteer of Oenomäus, became victorious. ↑ sc. to Scythia. ↑ In the Homeric Hymn to Hermes Battus almost disappears from the story, and a somewhat different account of the stealing of the cattle is given. ”