Taphos

Place · slug: taphos

Also: Teleboan lands, Teleboan islands

Birth of Heracles: Amphitryon, Alcmene, Zeus; Hera’s Delay; the Snakes
Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (Theban birth; Zeus’s prolonged night; Eurystheus preferred by Hera’s trick)
Amphitryon’s War on the Teleboans (Taphians)
Heroes — Amphitryon / prelude to the birth of Heracles · Apollodorean / Hesiodic *Shield* — vengeance-war for Alcmene’s brothers
Pterelaus and Comaetho: The Golden Hair
Heroes — Amphitryon / Teleboan war / Taphian kingship · Apollodorean — Poseidon’s immortalizing hair; daughter’s betrayal