Iphicles (son of Amphitryon)
Heracles strangling a snake , Iphicles and Alcmene , Athena with a lance, Amphitryon on the right ; Stamnos of the Berlin painter , around 480/70 BC BC (Paris, Louvre G 192)
Iphikles ( Greek Ἰφικλῆς ) is the son of Alcmene in Greek mythology . He was of Amphitryon begotten second-born, human twins (half) brother of Heracles , who was fathered by Zeus. With his wife Automedusa he had a son Iolaos . Iphicles was a participant in the hunt for the Calydonian boar and fell fighting the sons of the Hippocoon of Sparta. Alternatively, he died after being wounded while fighting the Molions in Pheneos , where he was revered as a hero .
Individual evidence
- ^ Libraries of Apollodorus 2, 145.
- ^ Pausanias , Description of Greece 8, 14, 9-10.