Electryon
mythological figure · 3 works · 3 mentions · 4 anchored passages
her noble father
in the texts
Heracles
Figure slain by Amphitryon, whose killing caused Amphitryon's exile from Argolis.
Now he, my son, left Thebes where I was settled, left his wife Megara and her kin, eager to make his home in Argolis, in that walled town which the Cyclopes built, from which I am exiled for the slaying of Electryon;
Shield of Heracles
Father of Alcmena; king slain by Amphitryon in a dispute over cattle, precipitating the family's exile to Thebes.
Or like her who left home and country and came to Thebes, following warlike Amphitryon,—even Alcmena, the daughter of Electryon, gatherer of the people.
“O hero Iolaus, best beloved of all men, truly Amphitryon sinned deeply against the blessed gods who dwell on Olympus when he came to sweet-crowned Thebes and left Tiryns, the well-built citadel, because he slew Electryon for the sake of his wide-browed oxen.
Amphitruo
Father of Alcmena, named in the prologue to identify her lineage.
whose wife is Alcmena, daughter of Electryon.