Tlepolemus, or Tlêpólemos, in Greek mythology was the son of Heracles by Astyocheia, daughter of the King of Ephyra. Greek mythology comprises the collected narratives of Greek gods, goddesses, heroes, and heroines, originally created and spread within an oral-poetic tradition. ... Statue of Heracles In Greek mythology, Heracles, or Heraklês (glory of Hera, Ηρακλης) was a divine hero, the demigod son of Zeus and Alcmene, and stepson of Alcmenes rightful husband and great-grandson of Perseus. ...

In his youth, Tlepolemus accidentally killed his father's maternal uncle, Licymnius, one of the Heracleidae, and fled his father's house with his followers to Rhodes, of which he became the ruler. There he fouded cities and married Polyxo. Tlepolemus the first suitors to agree to set sail for Troy. He led the Rhodian forces, nine ships total, that joined the Achaean force in the Trojan War. When the Argive army realized they were fighting there own and not the Trojans when they mistakingly landed on Mysia, Tlepolemus was one of the envoys sent to smooth the situation out with the Mysian king Telephus, because they were both sons of Herecles. He encouned Sarpedon on the first day of fighting in the Iliad and taunted him saying that he lacked courage and that he could not really be the son of Zeus. Tlepolemus then attacked him, and although he wounded Sarpedon, he was slain by the latter In Greek mythology, Licymnius was a good friend of Heracles and a son of Electryon. ... Heracleidae, the general name for the numerous descendants of Heracles (Hercules), and specially applied in a narrower sense to the descendants of Hyllus, the eldest of his four sons by Deianira, the conquerors of Peloponnesus. ... Main entrance to the medieval city of Rhodes Rhodes, Greek Ρόδος (pron. ... The Trojan War was a war waged, according to legend, against the city of Troy in Asia Minor by the armies of the Achaeans, following the kidnapping (or elopement) of Helen of Sparta by Paris of Troy. ... Argos (Greek: Άργος, Árgos) is a city in Greece in the Peloponnesus near Nafplio, which was its historic harbor, named for Nauplius. ... Walls of the excavated city of Troy This article is about the city of Troy / Ilion as described in the works of Homer, and the location of an ancient city associated with it. ... Mysia. ... A Greek mythological figure, Telephus referred to two different people. ... In Greek mythology, Sarpedon referred to several different people. ... The Iliad (Greek Ιλιάς, Ilias) tells part of the story of the siege of the city of Ilium, i. ... Statue of Zeus Phidias created the 12-m (40-ft) tall statue of Zeus at Olympia about 435 BC. The statue was perhaps the most famous sculpture in ancient Greece, imagined here in a 16th-century engraving. ...