Alcmaeon

[ alk-mee-uh n ]

/ ælkˈmi ən /

noun Classical Mythology.

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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Examples from the Web for alcmaeon

Alcibiades, it is supposed, was descended from Ajax, by his father's side; and by his mother's side from Alcmaeon.
The Boys' and Girls' Plutarch|Plutarch
Alcmaeon introduced also the doctrine that health depends on harmony, disease on discord of the elements within the body.
The Legacy of Greece|Various
It led to the death of Eriphyle, of Alcmaeon, of Phegeus and his sons.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 8|Various
Alcmaeon, that they receive their nourishment from every part of the body; as a sponge sucks in water.
Essays and Miscellanies|Plutarch

Alcmaeon says that a moist warmth in the tongue, joined with the softness of it, gives the difference of taste.
Essays and Miscellanies|Plutarch

Medicine definitions for alcmaeon

Alcmaeon

[ ălk-mē′ən ]

fl. sixth century bc.

Greek physician and philosopher. He was the first known anatomist and probably the first to perform scientific dissections of human bodies.