Iphicles

In Greek mythology, Iphicles (/ˈɪfɪˌkliːz/ or /ˈaɪfɪˌkliːz/; Ancient Greek: Ἰφικλῆς) is the name of three people (this name was conflated with the name Iphiclus (Ancient Greek: Ἴφικλος), which appears e.g. as the name of Protesilaus' father in Homer):

• The half maternal twin brother of Heracles, being the son of Alcmene and her human husband Amphitryon, whereas Heracles was her son by Zeus. He had a sister Laonome. 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]

References

1. Bibliotheca 2. 4. 11
2. Bibliotheca 2. 7. 3
3. Pausanias, Description of Greece, 8. 14. 6
4. Bibliotheca 1. 8. 3
5. Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, 1. 201
6. Hyginus, Fabulae, 14
7. Gaius Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica, 1. 370
8. Homer, Iliad, 2. 704-706; 13. 698
9. Hyginus, Fabulae, 103
10. Bibliotheca 1. 9. 12

External links

• Myth Index - Iphicles