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

But Iphitus did not restore all the Olympic games.

From The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended To which is Prefix'd, A Short Chronicle from the First Memory of Things in Europe, to the Conquest of Persia by Alexander the Great by Newton, Isaac, Sir

For some say he flourished at the same time with Iphitus, and joined with him in settling the cessation of arms during the Olympic games.

From Ideal Commonwealths by More, Thomas, Sir, Saint

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

Here it seems to be assumed that Œchalia, the native city of Iphitus, was situated in Messenia, which, as we have shown above,1828 was not the original tradition.

From The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 1 of 2 by Müller, Karl Otfried

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