Iphitus
Role: son of Eurytus · First appears: Apollodorus, Library 1.9
🌐 Also appears in: The Iliad (as Iphitus) · The Odyssey (as Iphitus) · Plutarch's Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans (as Iphitus)
Life events
- Hercules, driven mad again, killed Iphitus by throwing him from Tiryns's walls.(Apollodorus, Library 2.6 · 📍 Tiryns)
- With: Heracles
- “but going mad again he threw him from the walls of Tiryns.”
Apollodorus, Library 1.9
- parent: Naubolus “Iphitus, son of Naubolus”
Apollodorus, Library 2.6
- parent: Eurytus (Iphitus is identified as Eurytus's son.) “Iphitus, the elder of Eurytus's sons”
- with Heracles (Hercules killed Iphitus.) “going mad again he threw him from the walls of Tiryns”
- siblings with Iole (Iphitus is identified as Eurytus's son and Iole as Eurytus's daughter.) “while Iphitus, the elder of Eurytus's sons, said that Iole should be given to Hercules”
- with Iole (Iphitus advocated giving Iole to Hercules.) “while Iphitus, the elder of Eurytus's sons, said that Iole should be given to Hercules”
Apollodorus, Epitome 7
- with Odysseus (interaction) “the bow of Ulysses, which he had once received from Iphitus”
- with Odysseus (interaction) “the bow of Ulysses, which he had once received from Iphitus”
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