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Rhopalus

Ῥόπαλος

(Ῥόπαλος), a son of Heracles and father of Phaestus (Ptolem. Heph. 3; Eustath. ad Hom. p. 237). A second mythical personage of this name is mentioned by Pausanias (2.6.4.)

From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.