Alcmaeon

American  

[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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Example Sentences

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

Now, the best tragedies are founded on the story of a few houses, on the fortunes of Alcmaeon, Oedipus, Orestes, Meleager, Thyestes, Telephus, and those others who have done or suffered something terrible.

From The Poetics of Aristotle by Butcher, S. H. (Samuel Henry)

Alcmaeon and the mathematicians, that the planets have a contrary motion to the fixed stars, and in opposition to them are carried from the west to the east.

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

Alcmaeon is considered in the companion chapter on Greek Medicine.

From The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield by Livingstone, R.W.

Alcmaeon, the head, for that is the commanding and the principal part of the body.

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