Electryon

While Electryon ruled at Mycenae, the sons of Pterelaos arrived with Taphios and claimed the kingdom associated with Mestor, their maternal grandfather. Electryon rejected their claim. The visitors then drove away his cattle. Electryon’s sons pursued them, and the two groups challenged one another in battle. They killed one another, leaving only Licymnios among Electryon’s sons, because he was still a child, and Everes among Pterelaos’s sons, because he had been guarding the ships.

The Taphians who escaped sailed away with the stolen cattle. They placed the animals in the care of Polyxenos, king of the Eleans. Amphitryon ransomed the cattle from Polyxenos and brought them back to Mycenae. Electryon then sought vengeance for the deaths of his sons. With Amphitryon’s help, he defeated the invading Taphians, who were also called Teleboans in the account of his planned expedition.

Electryon intended to continue the war against the Teleboans. He entrusted the kingdom to Amphitryon and gave him his daughter Alcmene. He made Amphitryon swear that he would respect her virginity until Electryon returned. The account then turns to the recovery of the cattle, which Electryon was receiving back when the passage breaks off. The islands of the Teleboans lay opposite Acarnania, near the entrance to the Corinthian Gulf.