Amphitryon

He had to know how this horror had come to pass and Amphitryon told him.

He was born in Thebes and for a long time was held to be the son of Amphitryon, a distinguished general.

In those earlier years he was called Alcides, or descendant of Alcaeus who was Amphitryon’s father.

But in reality he was the son of Zeus, who had visited Amphitryon’s wife Alcmena in the shape of her husband when the general was away fighting.

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