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

Iphicles screamed and tried to get out of bed, but Hercules sat up and grasped the deadly creatures by the throat.

The mother heard Iphicles’ screams and, calling to her husband, rushed to the nursery.

On Hercules’ return to Thebes he gave his wife Megara to his friend and charioteer Iolaus, son of Iphicles, and by beating Eurytus of Oechalia and his sons in a shooting match won a claim to the hand of his daughter Iole, whose family, however, except her brother Iphitus, withheld their consent to the union.

He mounted his chariot, and his beloved nephew Iolaus; the son of his stepbrother Iphicles, who for a long time had been his inseparable companion, sat by his side, guiding the horses; and so they sped toward Lerna.