Eurystheus

Eurystheus was by no means stupid, but of a very ingenious turn of mind, and when the strongest man on earth came to him humbly prepared to be his slave, he devised a series of penances which from the point of view of difficulty and danger could not have been improved upon.

The tasks Eurystheus gave him to do are called “the Labors of Hercules.”

After that, Eurystheus, a cautious man, would not let him inside the city.

Hercules mastered him, put him in a boat and brought him to Eurystheus.

He told Hercules he could keep on holding up the sky, for Atlas himself would take the apples to Eurystheus.