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

After his death Alcmaeon was worshipped at Thebes; his tomb was at Psophis in a grove of cypresses.

From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

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

"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

Alcmaeon, that it is part of the brain.

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