
a place where it is called the wealth, miraculous resurrections, rejuvenation, wars and beheadings.
We have seen that Iolaus was a great builder of high schools, courts and tholoi (nuraghi?) With the aid, according to some, of Daedalus. According to a current that follows
Sallustio, echoed by Pausanias, Daedalus was already in Sardinia, had come with the migration of Aristeo, but this does not mean that has subsequently worked for Iolaus.
is a fact that went: migrated to Cumae, where he built a temple to Apollo in which he told his story and the ill-fated flight of Icarus. So says Servius, so Virgil had narrated.
and the colony of Iolaus? Prospered. The usual
Diodorus tells us that Iolaus, defeated the natives, divided up the land, dividing it and improving it. The plain (Campidano?) Was still called Ioaleion Sicilian writer of our time, and Diodorus adds that Iolaus got busy in order to clear land and plant fruit trees.

Sardinia became so rich that that was his downfall. Diodorus us a clue that the island of wealth acquired such a reputation that the Carthaginians, centuries later, "for it endured many struggles and hardships." We can imagine
Iolaus, old but happy, for you to enjoy serenity his last days in his colony, thriving and famous ... but maybe not. Always
Diodorus, in fact, tells us that he returned to Greece and then, returning to the West, he stopped in Sicily. He was accompanied by some of Tespiadi, who stopped in Sicily, and were mingled with Sicani by these extraordinarily honored.
Our Iolaus would do anything to help the children of Heracles, wherever they were, and "system" in positions of prestige.
too old, or even after death (!) Iolaus was ready to give them a hand.
is said, in fact, that the wicked Eurystheus, king of Mycenae and persecutor of Heracles, after the death of attacked his children defenseless. Iolaus rushed to defend, with the help (once again) the usual Ateniesi.Pare that Eurystheus was a much cowardly: every time he gave Heracles a chore to be done and hope there will remain dry.

But the army was defeated at Mycenae, Eurystheus and Iolaus chased and captured him, then took the prisoner to Alcmene, the mother of Heracles and asked what to do: Alcmene ordered that Iolaus was beheaded and executed the sentence.
So far nothing strange. If not that a variant Iolaus tells us that at the time was old or even dead!
The myth describes him dead in Sardinia, but as a good "sleeping under the mountain" (see notes to know what I mean!), Was resurrected just for the company ... A variation
more "rational" (and never quotes were more appropriate in this case) said that was not exactly dead, but only very old (sic). In view of the danger, Hebe, wife of Heracles and the divine goddess of youth, gave him back for a day and force youth to eliminate the enemy of the famous uncle.

Tespiadi?
not forget that some remained in Thebes
... And speaking of Thebes, Pausanias tells us that in this very city, in front of the doors Pretidi at the stadium and the gymnasium, the Thebans indicate a building like the heroon of Iolaus. The heroon is a heroic monument, which usually contained the dead body of the hero.
But Pausanias himself assures us: Theban Iolaus recognized that, Tespiadi and the Athenians that he made the migration, lay dead in Sardinia. On the island there were places called (again!) Iolaei where Iolaus was receiving honors from the inhabitants. It reinforces the concept
Solino: the Iolesi added a temple to the tomb of the hero because, similar in value to his uncle Heracles had released Sardinia for many ills that are not explained.
Tespiadi and Iolaus are perhaps the same "men sleeping in Sardinia [...] next to the heroes" of which Aristotle speaks, and behind which one can see that the rite of incubation was performed in all probability, in the Tombs of the Giants?
The fact is that the long reigned Tespiadi Sardinia. But we will speak in the next post, the last (promesso!) dedicated to the colonization of the grandsons of King Thespis.

Some small notes ...
What I mean by the "sleeping under the mountain" referring to Iolaus? Several legends tell of a king who looks dead, but actually sleeps in a place on the border with the world of the dead (usually a mountain) before returning to help his people in the moment of supreme danger. So it is said for example Arthur, but also to Frederick Barbarossa. Other versions say that Iolaus was present at the funeral pyre of Heracles: the shipment was made in Sardinia, and then, after the death of the great uncle. But mythographers that speak directly of the colony, seem to understand that Hercules was still alive when he left Iolaus. a discordant version of the end of Eurystheus said that it was Illo, the son of Heracles, and his cousin Iolaus to kill the king of Mycenae.