Iphiklos (son of Phylakos)
Iphiklos ( Greek Ἴφικλος ) is a Thessalian in Greek mythology , son of Phylakos von Phylake and Klymene . His sons were Protesilaos and Podarkes . Clymenus is named as a brother .
In the Iliad of Homer , he is like his father as "cattle rich," as the owner of a valuable herd so. This herd is often mentioned in later sources. For example, in the 2nd century Pausanias reports of a cave near Pylos , in which Nestor had housed the flock that had since come into his possession.
According to the library of Apollodorus , Iphiklos was sterile and the seer Melampus had been promised these cattle by Phylakos if Melampus could find a cure for his son's sterility. Melampus had previously demonstrated his visionary abilities to Phylakos by warning of the collapse of a house in which Iphiklos was staying. Melampus had learned from a conversation between two woodworms that this was imminent . Now Melampus sacrificed two bulls. When a vulture came to eat from the carcasses, it told him that a long time ago Iphiklos, then still a child, was there when Phylakos castrated rams. At the sight of the big, bloody knife in his father's hand, he was startled and ran away. Phylakos put the knife in an oak that enclosed the knife. The vulture told Melampus that the prince would be healed if the knife was pulled out of the tree, the rust scraped off and the prince would drink it with water for ten days. The knife was found under the bark of the tree and the bird's instructions were followed. Iphiklos was healed and became the father of Podarkes.
There are also more direct accounts of the strange prehistory. Phylakos is said to have been castrating when he caught young Iphiklos doing a lewd act. Angry he threatened him with the knife; in one variant he is said to have injured the boy's pubic parts. Iphiklos ran away and Phylakos stuck the bloody knife into a pear tree. Years later, Melampus came to Phylake to buy cattle from Iphiklos. When he found out that it was sterile, he advised that Iphiklos should be allowed ten days to drink wine mixed with the rust of that knife. The cure was successful and Melampus received the cattle in gratitude. In a different version, Iphiklos is said to have castrated goats and thus aroused the wrath of the gods.
literature
- Heinrich Wilhelm Stoll : Iphiklos 1 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 2.1, Leipzig 1894, Col. 306-308 ( digitized version ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hyginus Fabulae 14
- ↑ Valerius Flaccus Argonautica 1,369
- ↑ Homer Iliad 2,704-706; 13,698
- ↑ Pausania's description of Greece 4,36,3
- ↑ Scholion to Apollonios of Rhodes Argonautika 1,118
- ↑ Libraries of Apollodorus 1, 9, 12
- ↑ Ludwig Less : Phylakos 1 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 3.2, Leipzig 1909, Col. 2479 f. ( Digitized version ).