Iphitus
Family: Oechalia · Role: prince · First appears: Sophocles, The Trachinian Maidens — Scene 1
Life events
- Heracles defeated Iphitus, after which he and Deianira lived in exile at Trachis.(Sophocles, The Trachinian Maidens — Scene 1 · 📍 Trachis)
- Heracles killed Iphitus by throwing him from the tower-crowned cliff.(Sophocles, The Trachinian Maidens — Scene 2 · 📍 Tirynthian height)
- With: Heracles
- “When Iphitus to the Tirynthian height Followed the track where his brood-mares had strayed, He, while the thought and eye of the man by chance Were sundered, threw him from the tower-crowned cliff.”
Sophocles, The Trachinian Maidens — Scene 1
- enemies with Heracles “For since he quelled the might of Iphitus,”
Also listed in Other Figures — Minor Figures
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Extracted from the original text of Greek Tragedy. Made with Rho MD.