Electryon

Family: Argos · Role: father of Alcmene · First appears: Euripides, Alcestis — Scene 5

Euripides, Alcestis — Scene 5

• child: Alcmena “O my much-daring heart and my soul, now show what manner of son the Tirynthian Alcmena, daughter of Electryon, bare thee to Jove.”
• younger kin: Heracles (Electryon is Heracles' maternal grandfather.) “O my much-daring heart and my soul, now show what manner of son the Tirynthian Alcmena, daughter of Electryon, bare thee to Jove.”

Euripides, Hercules Distracted — Scene 1

• enemies with Amphitryon “Whence I fled Stained with Electryon’s gore:”

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Extracted from the original text of Greek Tragedy. Made with Rho MD.