Quartigod (¼ divine via Perseus); king of Mycenae after Perseus; father of Alcmene by Anaxo. The Pterelaus war (Apollod. 2.4.6) over the disputed Taphian inheritance led to the deaths of all his sons except Licymnius. Killed accidentally by his son-in-law and nephew Amphitryon during a cattle dispute; Amphitryon and Alcmene fled to Thebes, where Zeus subsequently begot Heracles on Alcmene. Electryon's death is the proximate cause of the Theban exile that produced Heracles.