Iphicles
mythological figure · 3 works · 3 mentions · 5 anchored passages
the other · the son of Iphiclus
in the texts
Shield of Heracles
Twin brother of Heracles, son of Amphitryon and Alcmena, and father of Iolaus.
” And blameless Iolaus answered him again:
She bore him through the embrace of the son of Cronos lord of dark clouds and the other, Iphicles, of Amphitryon the spear-wielder— offspring distinct, this one of union with a mortal man, but that other of union with Zeus, leader of all the gods.
Isthmean
Half-brother of Heracles and father of Iolaus.
Often crowning their hair with wreaths from these contests they appeared beside the streams of Dirce or near the Eurotas, the son of Iphicles, who was of the same city as the race of the Sown Men, and the son of Tyndareus, dwelling among the Achaeans in his highland home of Therapne.
Pythian
The mortal twin brother of Heracles, son of Alcmena and Amphitryon, and (in this account) father of Iolaus.
Such is the grace that spreads abroad the fame of the son of Iphicles,
Only a mute man does not have Heracles’ name on his lips, and does not always remember the waters of Dirce, which reared him and Iphicles.