Iphicles
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In Greek mythology, Iphicles (Ἰφικλῆς) is the name of three different people:
- The half-brother of Heracles, being the son of Alcmene and her human husband Amphitryon, whereas Heracles was her son by Zeus. Iphicles was the father of Heracles' charioteer Iolaus by Automedusa, daughter of Alcathous.[1] He died in the battle against either Hippocoon[2] or the Molionides.[3]
- Son of Thestius and either Leucippe, Laophonte, Deidameia or Eurythemis; one of the Argonauts, and a participant in the hunt for the Calydonian Boar, where he was killed by Meleager.[4][5][6][7]
- A Thessalonian man, son of Phylacus and Clymene, father of Protesilaus and Podarces by Diomedeia or Astyoche.[8][9] He was cured of infertility by Melampus, and gave him his famous herd of oxen in reward.[10]
[edit] References
- ^ Apollodorus, Bibliotheca, 2. 4. 11
- ^ Apollodorus, Bibliotheca, 2. 7. 3
- ^ Pausanias, Description of Greece, 8. 14. 6
- ^ Apollodorus, Bibliotheca, 1. 8. 3
- ^ Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, 1. 201
- ^ Hyginus, Fabulae, 14
- ^ Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica, 1. 370
- ^ Homer, Iliad, 2. 704-706; 13. 698
- ^ Hyginus, Fabulae, 103
- ^ Apollodorus, Bibliotheca, 1. 9. 12
