Tlepolemus

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Tlepolemus, or Tlêpólemos, in Greek mythology was the son of Heracles by Astyocheia, daughter of the King of Ephyra.

In his youth, Tlepolemus accidentally killed his father's maternal uncle, Licymnius, one of the Heracleidae, and fled his father's house with his followers to Rhodes, of which he became the ruler. There he fouded cities and married Polyxo. Tlepolemus the first suitors to agree to set sail for Troy. He led the Rhodian forces, nine ships total, that joined the Achaean force in the Trojan War. When the Argive army realized they were fighting their own and not the Trojans when they mistakingly landed on Mysia, Tlepolemus was one of the envoys sent to smooth the situation out with the Mysian king Telephus, because they were both sons of Herecles. He encouned Sarpedon on the first day of fighting in the Iliad and taunted him saying that he lacked courage and that he could not really be the son of Zeus. Tlepolemus then attacked him, and although he wounded Sarpedon, he was slain by the latter