Editing Heracles (section)

==Children==
{{Main|Heracleidae}}
[[File:Herakles and Telephos Louvre MR219.jpg|thumb|upright|Heracles and his son [[Telephus]]. (Marble, Roman copy of the 1st or 2nd century CE)]]

All of Heracles's marriages and almost all of his affairs resulted in births of a number of sons and at least four daughters.
One of the most prominent is [[Hyllus]], the son of Heracles and [[Deianeira]] or [[Melite (naiad)|Melite]]. The term ''Heracleidae'', although it could refer to all of Heracles's children and further descendants, is most commonly used to indicate the descendants of Hyllus, in the context of their lasting struggle for return to Peloponnesus, out of where Hyllus and his brothers—the children of Heracles by Deianeira—were thought to have been expelled by Eurystheus.

The children of Heracles by Megara are collectively well known because of their ill fate, but there is some disagreement among sources as to their number and individual names. Apollodorus lists three, Therimachus, Creontiades and Deicoon;<ref>Apollodorus, ''Bibliotheca'', 2. 4. 11 = 2. 7. 8</ref> to these Hyginus<ref>''Fabulae'' 162</ref> adds Ophitus and, probably by mistake, Archelaus, who is otherwise known to have belonged to the Heracleidae, but to have lived several generations later. A scholiast on [[Pindar]]' s odes provides a list of seven completely different names: Anicetus, Chersibius, Mecistophonus, Menebrontes, Patrocles, Polydorus, Toxocleitus.<ref>Scholia on Pindar, Isthmian Ode 3 (4), 104</ref>

Other well-known children of Heracles include [[Telephus]], king of [[Mysia]] (by [[Auge]]), and [[Tlepolemus]], one of the Greek commanders in the [[Trojan War]] (by Astyoche).

According to [[Herodotus]], a line of 22 [[List of Kings of Lydia|Kings of Lydia]] descended from Heracles and Omphale. The line was called Tylonids after his Lydian name.

The divine sons of Heracles and [[Hebe (mythology)|Hebe]] are [[Alexiares and Anicetus]].

===Consorts and children===

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# [[Megara (mythology)|Megara]]
## Therimachus
## Creontiades
## Ophitus
## Deicoon
# [[Omphale]]
## [[Agelaus]]
## [[Tyrsenus]]
# [[Deianira]]
## [[Hyllus]]
## [[Ctesippus]]
## Glenus
## Oneites
## [[Macaria (daughter of Heracles)|Macaria]]
## [[Onites (myth)|Onites]]<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Statius |first1=Publius Papinius |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=54liAAAAMAAJ&q=onites+son+of+heracles |title=Statius, Thebaid 12: Introduction, Text and Commentary |last2=Pollmann |first2=Karla |date=2004 |publisher=Schöningh |isbn=978-3-506-71783-2 |pages=210 |language=en}}</ref>
# [[Hebe (mythology)|Hebe]]
## [[Alexiares and Anicetus|Alexiares]]
## [[Alexiares and Anicetus|Anicetus]]
# [[Astydameia]], daughter of [[Ormenus]] or [[Amyntor (son of Ormenus)|Amyntor]]
## [[Ctesippus]]
# [[Astyoche]], daughter of [[Phylas]]
## [[Tlepolemus]]
# [[Auge]]
## [[Telephus]]
# [[Autonoe (mythology)|Autonoë]], daughter of Piraeus / [[Iphinoe (mythology)|Iphinoe]], daughter of [[Antaeus]]
## [[Palaemon (Greek myth)|Palaemon]]
# Baletia, daughter of Baletus
## Brettus<ref>[[Stephanus of Byzantium]] s. v. ''Brettos''</ref>
# Barge
## Bargasus<ref>[[Stephanus of Byzantium]] s. v. ''Bargasa''</ref>
# [[Bolbe]]
## [[Olynthus (mythology)|Olynthus]]
# [[Celtine]]
## [[Celtus]]
# [[Chalciope]]
## [[Thessalus]]
# Chania, nymph
## Gelon<ref>[[Maurus Servius Honoratus|Servius]] on [[Virgil]]'s ''Georgics'' 2. 115</ref>
# The [[Scythia]]n [[Drakaina (mythology)|dracaena]] or [[Echidna (mythology)|Echidna]]
## [[Agathyrsi|Agathyrsus]]
## [[Gelonians|Gelonus]]
## [[Gelonians|Scythes]]
# [[Epicaste]]
## Thestalus
# Lavinia, daughter of [[Evander of Pallene|Evander]]<ref name="Dion. Hal. 1. 43">[[Dionysius of Halicarnassus]], ''Roman Antiquities'', 1. 43. 1</ref>
## Pallas
# [[Maliya#Greek attestations|Malis]], a slave of Omphale
## Acelus<ref>Stephanus of Byzantium s. v. Akelēs</ref>
# [[Meda (mythology)|Meda]]
##[[Antiochus (mythology)|Antiochus]]
# [[Melite (heroine)]]
# [[Melite (naiad)]]
## Hyllus (possibly)
# [[Myrto (mythology)|Myrto]]
## [[Eucleia]]
# Palantho of [[Hyperborea]]<ref>[[Gaius Julius Solinus|Solinus]], ''De mirabilia mundi'', 1. 15</ref>
## Latinus<ref name="Dion. Hal. 1. 43" />
# [[Parthenope (mythology)|Parthenope]], daughter of [[Stymphalus (son of Elatus)]]
## [[Everes (mythology)]]
# [[Phialo]]
## Aechmagoras
# [[Psophis (mythology)|Psophis]]
## [[Echephron]]
## [[Promachus]]
# [[Pyrene (daughter of Bebryx)|Pyrene]]
## none known
# Rhea, Italian priestess
## [[Aventinus (mythology)|Aventinus]]<ref>[[Virgil]], ''[[Aeneid]]'', 7. 655 ff</ref>
# [[Thebe (daughter of Adramys)]]
# [[Tinjis|Tinge]], wife of Antaeus
##[[Sufax|Sophax]]<ref>[[Plutarch]], Life of [[Sertorius]], 9. 4</ref>
# 50 daughters of Thespius
## 50 sons, see [[Thespius#Daughters and grandchildren]]
# Unnamed [[Celts|Celtic]] woman
## Galates<ref>[[Diodorus Siculus]], ''Library of History'', 5. 24. 2</ref>
# Unnamed female slave of [[Iardanus (father of Omphale)|Iardanus]]
## [[Alcaeus (mythology)|Alcaeus]] / [[Cleodaeus]]
# Unnamed daughter of Syleus (Xenodoce?)<ref>So [[Conon (mythographer)|Conon]], ''Narrationes'', 17. In Pseudo-Apollodorus, ''Bibliotheca'' 2. 6. 3 a daughter of Syleus, Xenodoce, is killed by Heracles</ref>
# Unnamed daughter of Aphra
## [[Diodorus]]<ref>Flavius Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews</ref>
# Unknown consorts
## Agylleus<ref>[[Statius]], ''Thebaid'', 6. 837, 10. 249</ref>
## [[Amathes|Amathous]]<ref>[[Stephanus of Byzantium]] s. v. ''Amathous''</ref>
## Azon<ref>[[Stephanus of Byzantium]] s. v. ''Gaza''</ref>
## [[Chromis (mythology)|Chromis]]<ref>[[Statius]], ''Thebaid'', 6. 346</ref>
## Cyrnus<ref>[[Maurus Servius Honoratus|Servius]] on [[Virgil]]'s Eclogue 9. 30</ref>
##[[Dexamenus]]<ref>[[Dionysius of Halicarnassus]], ''Roman Antiquities'', 1. 50. 4</ref>
## Leucites<ref>Hyginus, ''[[Fabulae]]'', 162</ref>
## [[Manto (mythology)|Manto]]
## [[Pandaie]]
## [[Phaistos#Iron Age|Phaestus]] ''or'' Rhopalus<ref>In Stephanus of Byzantium s. v. ''Phaistos'', Rhopalus is the son of Heracles and Phaestus his own son; in [[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], ''Description of Greece'', 2. 6. 7, vice versa (Phaestus son, Rhopalus grandson)</ref>
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