Alcmaeon

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[alk-mee-uhn] / ælkˈmi ən /

noun

Classical Mythology.

1. a 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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Alcmaeon

The origin of movement had bewitched some of history’s shrewdest minds: Alcmaeon, Plato, Aristotle, Posidonius, Al-Razi, Descartes, Newton, Franklin.

From New York Times ● Apr. 13, 2018

"The play was first produced after the death of Euripides by his son who bore the same name, together with the Iphigenia in Aulis and the Alcmaeon, probably in the year 405 B.C."

From Hippolytus/The Bacchae by Euripides

The first Greek anatomist, however, who is recognized as such, is said to have been Alcmaeon.

From A History of Science — Volume 1 by Edward Huntington Williams

Alcmaeon believes that the principal part of the soul, residing in the brain, draws to itself odors by respiration.

From Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies by Plutarch

Dissection—already practiced by Alcmaeon, Democritus, Diogenes and others—was conducted on a large scale, but the human body was still taboo.

From The Evolution of Modern Medicine A Series of Lectures Delivered at Yale University on the Silliman Foundation in April, 1913 by William Osler

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