Iphicles

[if-i-kleez, ahy-fi-]

noun

Classical Mythology.

1. a son of Alcmene and Amphitryon, the brother of Hercules.

Example Sentences

Iphicles screamed and tried to get out of bed, but Hercules sat up and grasped the deadly creatures by the throat.

From Literature

She bore two children, Hercules to Zeus and Iphicles to Amphitryon.

From Literature

The mother heard Iphicles’ screams and, calling to her husband, rushed to the nursery.

From Literature

On Hercules’ return to Thebes he gave his wife Megara to his friend and charioteer Iolaus, son of Iphicles, and by beating Eurytus of Oechalia and his sons in a shooting match won a claim to the hand of his daughter Iole, whose family, however, except her brother Iphitus, withheld their consent to the union.

From Project Gutenberg

He mounted his chariot, and his beloved nephew Iolaus; the son of his stepbrother Iphicles, who for a long time had been his inseparable companion, sat by his side, guiding the horses; and so they sped toward Lerna.

From Project Gutenberg