Iphitus

Eldest son of Eurytus of Oechalia, Argonaut, and guest-friend of Odysseus (to whom he gave the bow of Eurytus, the bow of Odyssey 21) and of Heracles, who murdered him by hurling him from the walls of Tiryns — the crime that sent Heracles into servitude to Omphale. Mortal-tier (mortal father, unregistered mortal mother), matching the registered Eurytus and Iole. Distinct from Iphitus son of Naubolus, the Phocian Argonaut and father of Schedius and Epistrophus (Iliad 2.518).

Parentage

• Eurytus

Domains

• archery
• guest friendship

Powers

• Wields and bestows the bow of Eurytus

Epithets

• Οἰχαλίης ἐπίουρος (Oichaliēs epiouros, 'warder of Oechalia')

Relations

• father: Eurytus
• sibling: Iole
• sibling: Clytius
• sibling: Toxeus
• sibling: Deioneus
• sibling: Molion

Sources

• Homer Odyssey 21.13-41; Apollodorus 2.6.1-2, 2.7.7; Diodorus Siculus 4.31.3, 4.37.5; Apollonius Rhodius Argonautica 1.86-89; Hyginus Fabulae 14
• Timothy Gantz, Early Greek Myth (Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1993), pp. 434-437
• Apollodorus 2.6.1-2; Diodorus Siculus 4.31.3; Homer Odyssey 21.24-30