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In Greek mythology
Greek mythology

Greek mythology is the body of myths and legends belonging to the Ancient Greece concerning their List of Greek mythological figures#Immortals and Greek hero cult, Cosmology#Metaphysical cosmology, and the origins and significance of their own cult and ritual practices....
, Iphicles referred to three different people:

  1. The half-brother of Heracles
    Heracles

    In Greek mythology, Heracles or Herakles meaning "glory of Hera", or "Glorious through Hera" Alcides or Alcaeus " was a hero, the son of Zeus and Alcmene, foster son of Amphitryon and great-grandson of Perseus....
    , being the son of Alcmene
    Alcmene

    In Greek mythology, Alcmene or Alcmena was the mother of Heracles....
     and her human husband Amphitryon
    Amphitryon

    Amphitryon, or Amphitrion, in Greek mythology, was a son of Alcaeus , king of Tiryns in Argolis.Amphitryon was a Thebes, Greece general, who was originally from Tiryns in the eastern part of the Peloponnese....
     whereas Heracles was her son by Zeus
    Zeus

    Zeus in Greek mythology is the king of the gods, the ruler of Mount Olympus and the god of the sky father and List of thunder gods. His symbols are the thunderbolt, eagle, bull , and oak....
    . Iphicles was the father of Heracles' charioteer Iolaus
    Iolaus

    In Greek mythology, Iolaus or Iolaos was a Thebes, Greece divine hero, son of Heracles' brother Iphicles and Automedusa.He was famed for being Heracles' nephew and for helping with for some of his Labours of Hercules....
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    In Greek mythology
    Greek mythology

    Greek mythology is the body of myths and legends belonging to the Ancient Greece concerning their List of Greek mythological figures#Immortals and Greek hero cult, Cosmology#Metaphysical cosmology, and the origins and significance of their own cult and ritual practices....
    , Iphicles referred to three different people:

    1. The half-brother of Heracles
      Heracles

      In Greek mythology, Heracles or Herakles meaning "glory of Hera", or "Glorious through Hera" Alcides or Alcaeus " was a hero, the son of Zeus and Alcmene, foster son of Amphitryon and great-grandson of Perseus....
      , being the son of Alcmene
      Alcmene

      In Greek mythology, Alcmene or Alcmena was the mother of Heracles....
       and her human husband Amphitryon
      Amphitryon

      Amphitryon, or Amphitrion, in Greek mythology, was a son of Alcaeus , king of Tiryns in Argolis.Amphitryon was a Thebes, Greece general, who was originally from Tiryns in the eastern part of the Peloponnese....
       whereas Heracles was her son by Zeus
      Zeus

      Zeus in Greek mythology is the king of the gods, the ruler of Mount Olympus and the god of the sky father and List of thunder gods. His symbols are the thunderbolt, eagle, bull , and oak....
      . Iphicles was the father of Heracles' charioteer Iolaus
      Iolaus

      In Greek mythology, Iolaus or Iolaos was a Thebes, Greece divine hero, son of Heracles' brother Iphicles and Automedusa.He was famed for being Heracles' nephew and for helping with for some of his Labours of Hercules....
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      • He was played in Hercules: The Legendary Journeys
        Hercules: The Legendary Journeys

        Hercules: The Legendary Journeys is an United States Television program, filmed in New Zealand. It was produced from 1995 to 1999, and was very loosely based on the tales of the classical Greek mythology culture hero Heracles....
         by Kevin Smith (New Zealand actor) who also played Ares
        Ares

        In Greek mythology, Ares is the son of Zeus and Hera. Though often referred to as the Twelve Olympians God of warfare, he is more accurately the god of bloodlust, or slaughter personified: "Ares is apparently an ancient abstract noun meaning throng of battle, war."...
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    2. Son of Thestius
      Thestius

      In Greek mythology, Thestius was the son of either Ares and Demonice, or Agenor, son of Pleuron by Epicasta. He was the father of Iphicles with Leucippe ....
       and either Leucippe
      Leucippe

      In Greek mythology, Leucippe is the name of the following individuals:*One of the Minyades, three sisters who were driven by Dionysus to kill Hippasus , the son of Leucippe...
       or Eurythemis, one of the Argonauts
      Argonauts

      In Greek mythology, the Argonauts were a band of heroes who, in the years before the Trojan War, accompanied Jason to Colchis in his quest to find the Golden Fleece....
      , and a participant in the hunt for the Calydonian Boar
      Calydonian Boar

      The Calydonian Boar is one of the monsters of Greek mythology that had to be overcome by heroes of the Olympian age. Sent by Artemis to ravage the region of Calydon in Aetolia because its king failed to honor her in his rites to the gods, it was killed in the Calydonian Hunt, in which many male heroes took part, but also a powerful wom...
      , where he was killed by Meleager
      Meleager

      In Greek mythology, Meleager was the son of Althaea and Oeneus and, according to some accounts father of Parthenopeus and Polydora. His story has similarities with the Scandinavian Norna-Gests ??ttr....
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    3. A Thessalonian
      Thessaly

      Thessaly is one of the 13 Peripheries of Greece of Greece, and is further sub-divided into 4 Prefectures of Greece. The capital of the periphery and traditional Regions of Greece is Larissa....
       man, son of Phylacus
      Phylacus

      In Greek mythology, Phylacus founded the city of Phylace, Thessaly. He was the son of Deion and Diomede, husband of Clymene, and the father of Alcimede....
      , he fathered Protesilaus
      Protesilaus

      In Greek mythology, Protesilaus , was a hero in the Iliad who was venerated in Thessaly and Thrace. Protesilaus was the son of Iphicles and the leader of the Phylaceans....
       and Podarces
      Podarces

      In Greek mythology, Podarces was a son of Iphicles and brother of Protesilaus. In Homer Iliad, Podarces and Protesilaus were former suitors of Helen, and therefore bound to defend the marriage rights of Menelaus, her husband, when Helen was kidnapped by Paris ....
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