Iphition

Family: Trojans · Role: warrior · First appears: BOOK XX

Life events

• Achilles kills Iphition by splitting his head with a spear.(BOOK XX)
  • With: Achilles
  • “Achilles struck him full on the head as he was coming on towards him, and split it clean in two; whereon he fell heavily to the ground”

BOOK XX

• parent: Otrynteus (Otrynteus is Iphition’s father.) “First he killed Iphition son of Otrynteus, a leader of much people whom a naiad nymph had borne to Otrynteus”
• enemies with Achilles “First he killed Iphition son of Otrynteus”

Also listed in Trojans — Minor Figures

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Extracted from the original text of The Iliad. Made with Rho MD.