Iphiclus, a son of Thestius and brother of Althaea, sailed on the Argo, distinct from the homonymous Iphiclus of Phylace.1
His father Thestius is fixed in every account, but his mother is disputed. Apollodorus names her Eurythemis, daughter of Cleoboea, while Hyginus calls her Leucippe and styles Iphiclus a Lacedaemonian, brother of Althaea by that same mother.2
Apollodorus lists Iphiclus among the children of Thestius by Eurythemis, alongside the brothers Evippus, Plexippus, and Eurypylus and the sisters Althaea, Leda, and Hypermnestra.3
Apollonius brings Iphiclus to the voyage of the Argo from Calydon, at the side of his nephew Meleager, son of Oeneus — an uncle well skilled to fight with the javelin or hand to hand, who bore the young man company on his way.4
Both Apollodorus and Hyginus enroll the Thestiad in the Argonaut catalogue and mark him off from the other man of his name. Apollodorus lists 'Iphiclus, son of Thestius'; Hyginus expressly distinguishes this second Iphiclus, son of Thestius, a runner and javelin-thrower, from Iphiclus of Phylace.5
After the Calydonian boar hunt the sons of Thestius quarrel with their nephew Meleager over the spoils and are killed by him, the slaughter that drives Althaea to burn the fatal brand. In Apollodorus the Thestiadae claim the skin on the ground that Iphiclus had been the first to hit the boar, though he does not say which of them fall. The slain brothers' names then differ by author: Ovid calls them Plexippus and Toxeus, while Pausanias, describing the Tegean temple of Athena Alea, names the sons of Thestius Prothous and Cometes.6
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