The great hero took terrible revenge on the king of Aelis. A few years later, having already been released from the service of Eurystheus, Heracles invaded Aelid with a great army, defeated Augeus in a bloody battle and killed him with his deadly arrow. After the victory Heracles gathered his army and all the rich plunder near the city of Pisa, offered sacrifices to the Olympic gods and instituted the Olympic Games,[1] which have been celebrated since then by all the Greeks every four years in the sacred plain, planted by Heracles himself with olive trees dedicated to the goddess Athena-Pallada.

After all, says the fairest of judges, Radamanphus, that anyone who is struck may reply to a blow.