Among this hero's appearances in Homer is as the man who killed and robbed Odysseus' friend Iphitus. Sophocles' Trachiniae is about his death, and he appears as the deus ex machina at the end of the Philoctetes.  Euripides named one play after him and another after his children.  FTP, name this hero who killed his children and wife Megara and as a 
Among this hero's appearances in Homer is as the man who killed and robbed Odysseus' friend Iphitus. Sophocles' Trachiniae is about his death, and he appears as the deus ex machina at the end of the Philoctetes.  Euripides named one play after him and another after his children.  FTP, name this hero who killed his children and wife Megara and as a result was turned over to Eurystheus and made to do 12 labors.
Among this hero's appearances in Homer is as the man who killed and robbed Odysseus' friend Iphitus.
Heracles or Hercules