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Alcmaeon logo #10101) Suitor of Helen
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Alcmaeon

Alcmaeon logo #21000[mythology] In Greek mythology, Alcmaeon, or Alkmáon (Ἀλκμαίων), was the son of Amphiaraus and Eriphyle. As one of the Epigoni, he was a leader of the Argives who attacked Thebes, taking the city in retaliation for the deaths of their fathers, the Seven Against Thebes, who died while attempting the same thing. Pindar`s eighth Pyth...
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Alcmaeon

Alcmaeon logo #21003(from the article `Megacles`) ...was grandson to that Megacles who directed the slaughter of Cylon and his supporters on the Acropolis (612 ). That bloody act resulted in the ...
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Alcmaeon

Alcmaeon logo #21003Greek philosopher and physiologist of the academy at Croton (now Crotone, southern Italy), the first person recorded to have practiced dissection of ... [2 related articles]
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Alcmaeon

Alcmaeon logo #21003in Greek legend, the son of the seer Amphiaraus and his wife Eriphyle. When Amphiaraus set out with the expedition of the Seven Against Thebes, which ... [1 related articles]
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Alcmaeon

Alcmaeon logo #20688In Greek mythology, son of Amphiaraus. At his father's command, he and his brother Amphilochus killed their mother Eriphyle. Pursued by the Erinyes (Furies), he fled to Psophis where he was purified...
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Alcmaeon

Alcmaeon logo #21199a son of Amphiaraus and Eriphyle who commanded the second expedition against Thebes. He killed his mother for sending his father to certain death and was driven mad by the Furies.
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