This of course annoyed HERA, who began to stir up trouble. Zeus boasted, however, that the offspring (HERAKLES, originally named Alcaeus after his grandfather) was his son. She was surprised when her husband returned a second time, until TIRESIAS, the blind seer, explained the situation. The night (or same afternoon) before the successful Amphitryon returned, Alkmene slept with Zeus, under the impression that he was her hisband. Alkmene refused to sleep with her husband until he avenged her brothers, who had been killed in a cattle raid at Argos. The family went to live in Thebes (where Kreon was king). Alkmene was already the wife of Amphitryon, the nephew of Electryon.ĪMPHITRYON killed his father-in-law ELECTRYON, king of Tiryns, and was exiled by Elektryon's brother and successor STHENELOS (or Sthenelaus). HERAKLES, son of ZEUS and of ALKMENE (who was daughter of ELECTRYON, the son of Perseus, and therefore great-granddaughter of Zeus and Danaë).
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