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

• father: EurytusApollod. 2.6.1; Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.86-89 (primary)

Domains

• archery
• guest friendship

Powers

• Wields and bestows the bow of Eurytus

Epithets

• Οἰχαλίης ἐπίουρος (Oichaliēs epiouros, 'warder of Oechalia')Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.87 (primary)

Relations

• father: EurytusApollod. 2.6.1; Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.86-89 (primary)
• mother: Antiope daughter of Pylon (Antioche in Hesiod; wife of Eurytus, unregistered second parent) · GreekApollod. 2.6.1; Scholia to Sophocles, Trachiniae 354 (Hesiod, Catalogue) (primary)
• sibling: IoleBrother of Iole, the bride promised in the contest and carried off by Heracles. One-way relation to the already-registered sister; her entry is not edited here.Apollod. 2.6.1, 2.7.7 (primary)
• sibling: ClytiusBrother and fellow Argonaut.Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.86-89; Apollod. 2.7.7 (primary)
• sibling: ToxeusDiod. Sic. 4.37.5; Scholia to Sophocles, Trachiniae 354 (primary)
• sibling: DeioneusScholia to Sophocles, Trachiniae 354 (Hesiod, Catalogue) (primary)
• sibling: MolionDiod. Sic. 4.37.5 (primary)

Sources

• existence: 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 (primary); Timothy Gantz, Early Greek Myth (Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1993), pp. 434-437 (secondary)
• death-by-Heracles-at-Tiryns: Apollodorus 2.6.1-2; Diodorus Siculus 4.31.3; Homer Odyssey 21.24-30 (primary)