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    Alcmaeon

    mythological figure · 11 works · 12 mentions · 13 anchored passages

    Alcmaeon of Croton · Alemaeon, son of Amphiaraus

    spoken of as

    1 expression

    Alcmaeon of Croton4 mentions

    Stromata (Greek) · On the Nature of the Gods (Latin) · Protrepticus (Greek)

    Alcmaeon, son of Perithus, of Croton, first composed a treatise on nature.
    book 1

    in the texts

    StromataLate Antiquity · Greek

    Son of Perithus of Croton, credited as first to compose a treatise on nature.

    Alcmaeon, son of Perithus, of Croton, first composed a treatise on nature.
    book 1
    For when Alcmaeon of Croton had said that it is easier to guard against an enemy than a friend, Sophocles made, in the Antigone, "For what wound could be greater than an evil friend?
    book 6

    Nicomachean EthicsClassical · Greek

    Mythological figure who, in Euripides' play, is compelled by threats to murder his mother.

    for instance, we think it ridiculous that Alcmaeon in Euripides’ play is compelled by certain threats to murder his mother!
    chapter 3

    LettersLate Antiquity · Greek

    Mythological wanderer invoked as parallel to Basil's own impatience.

    For surely not even Alcmaeon, when he had found the Echinades, could endure his wandering any longer.
    letter 14

    On the Nature of the GodsHellenistic · Latin

    Greek philosopher who attributed divinity to heavenly bodies and the soul.

    Alcmaeon of Croton, who gave divinity to the sun, the moon, and the rest of the heavenly bodies, and to the soul besides, did not perceive that he was giving immortality to mortal things.
    book 1

    Tusculan DisputationsHellenistic · Latin

    Mythological matricide cited as an example of raving madness (furor).

    For this insanity, which, joined with folly, extends more widely, we separate from raving fury.
    book 3

    ProtrepticusLate Antiquity · Greek

    Philosopher of Croton who thought the stars were gods because ensouled.

    For Alcmaeon of Croton thought the stars were gods, being ensouled.
    protrepticus

    OrationsImperial · Greek

    Mythological figure who blamed Fortune for his wandering exile.

    Indeed, men charge even their private passions to Fortune:
    oration 64

    AntidosisClassical · Greek

    Ancient thinker cited for a doctrine of two elements.

    Alcmaeon, of only two;
    antidosis

    PythianClassical · Greek

    Son of Amphiaraus, one of the Epigoni who marched a second time against Thebes; foretold by his own father to embody the true spirit of his lineage, and venerated by the poet as a local hero-guardian at Thebes with prophetic power.

    I clearly see Alcmaeon, wielding a dappled serpent on his blazing shield, the first at the gates of Cadmus.
    book 2
    And I myself rejoice as I fling garlands over Alcmaeon and sprinkle him with song, because this hero is my neighbor and guardian of my possessions, and he met me when I was going to the songful navel of the earth, and he touched on prophecies with his inborn arts.
    chapter 8

    Alcibiades 2Classical · Greek

    Mythic figure paired with Orestes as another who took violent action against his own mother.

    But surely I shall not have to tax you with an inclination to commit such an act against your own mother as Orestes and Alcmaeon, and any others who have followed their example, are said to have committed against theirs.
    alcibiades 2

    History of the Peloponnesian WarClassical · Greek

    Legendary son of Amphiaraus who, after killing his mother, wandered under a curse until Apollo's oracle directed him to the alluvial lands of the Achelous, where he settled and gave his son's name to Acarnania.

    Such is the account we have received respecting Alcmaeon.
    chapter 2
    There is a report which I may also mention, that when Alemaeon, son of Amphiaraus, was wandering about after the murder of his mother, Apollo directed him by an oracle to inhabit this region, by suggesting to him that he would have no release from his terrors till he should discover and inhabit a country which had not yet been seen by the sun, nor existed as land, at the time he slew his mother;
    chapter 2