Iphitus

American  

[if-i-tuhs, ahy-fi-] / ˈɪf ɪ təs, ˈaɪ fɪ- /

Or Iphitos

noun

Classical Mythology.

1. a son of Eurytus, thrown to his death off the walls of Tiryns by Hercules.

---

Example Sentences

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

These festivals, we are informed, originated with Pelops, were brought to perfection by Hercules and Atreus, and restored by Iphitus when they had fallen into neglect.

From Project Gutenberg

The Olympiads were reckoned only from the year 776, B. C., although the games had been revived by Iphitus more than a century earlier.

From Project Gutenberg

They were revived by Iphitus, king of Elis, who obtained for them the solemn sanction of the Delphic oracle.

From Project Gutenberg

A later legend, which probably embodies historical fact, tells how, when Greece was torn by dissensions and ravaged by pestilence, Iphitus inquired of the oracle for help, and was bidden restore the games which had fallen into desuetude; and there was in the time of Pausanias, suspended in the temple of Hera at Olympia, a bronze disk whereon were inscribed, with the regulations of the games, the names of Iphitus and Lycurgus.

From Project Gutenberg