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

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

Were not the other children, like the white image of Sleep, especially the naked child Alcmaeon, of ivory? with Alcestis and Helen, and that one of the Dioscuri whose beard was still ungrown?

From Greek Studies: a Series of Essays by Pater, Walter

Alcmaeon, that they receive their nourishment from every part of the body; as a sponge sucks in water.

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

Cimon and Alcmaeon were violent opponents of Themistocles, and of their party Aristides was still the head.

From A Smaller history of Greece From the earliest times to the Roman conquest by Smith, William, Sir