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.

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Example Sentences

We tear ourselves away, I and Iphitus and Pelias, Iphitus now stricken in age, Pelias halting too under the wound of Ulysses, called forward by the clamour to Priam's house.

From The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

The disgraceful slavery into which Herakles fell was not caused by the hero's incontinence or uxoriousness, but a punishment for crime, in that he had in a fit of madness killed his friend Iphitus.

From A Second Book of Operas by Krehbiel, Henry Edward

Thus we may assume that Hippias sought to determine the date of the 1st Olympiad by King Iphitus, who had been assigned to the generation 100 Olympiads—a neat round-number—before himself.

From Problems in Greek history by Mahaffy, John Pentland

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

From The Student's Mythology A Compendium of Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Assyrian, Persian, Hindoo, Chinese, Thibetian, Scandinavian, Celtic, Aztec, and Peruvian Mythologies by White, Catherine Ann

Heracles now set forth on a weary pilgrimage, begging in vain that some one would purify him from the murder of Iphitus.

From Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by Berens, E.M.