This is where it starts (maybe): a story that might become a book called A Penance (or something drawn from that idea) 
But before Amphitryon reached Thebes, Zeus        came by night and prolonging the one night threefold he assumed the likeness of Amphitryon        and beddedwith Alcmena1 and related what had happened concerning the Teleboans. But when Amphitryon        arrived and saw that he was not welcomed by his wife, he inquired the cause; and when she        told him that he had come the night before and slept with her, he learned from Tiresias        how Zeus had enjoyed her. And Alcmena bore two sons, to wit, Hercules, whom she had by        Zeus and who was the elder by one night, and Iphicles, whom she had by Amphitryon. When        the child was eight months old, Hera desired the destruction of the babe and sent two huge        serpents to the bed. Alcmena called Amphitryon to her help, but Hercules arose and killed        the serpents by strangling them with both his hands.2 However, Pherecydes says that it was Amphitryon        who put the serpents in the bed, because he would know which of the two children was his,        and that when Iphicles fled, and Hercules stood his ground, he knew that Iphicles was        begotten of his body.
Appollodorus: Book  2, Chapter 4, Section 8
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