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    Alcmena

    mythological figure · 12 works · 15 mentions · 38 anchored passages

    Alcmena's son (referring to Heracles) · Tirynthian Alcmena · daughter of Electryon · neat-ankled Alcmena · the daughter of Electryon · the neat-ankled daughter of Electryon · wife of Amphitryon · wise Alcmena

    in the texts

    AlcestisClassical · Greek

    Heracles's mortal mother, daughter of Electryon, invoked by Heracles to affirm his own courage and lineage.

    Yet shall no man ever see Alcmena’s son trembling at his foemen’s prowess.
    chapter 23
    O heart, O soul, both sufferers oft, now show the mettle of that son Tirynthian Alcmena, daughter of Electryon, bare to Zeus.
    alcestis
    yonder, I believe, comes Alcmena’s son toward thy hearth.
    alcestis

    HeracleidaeClassical · Greek

    Aged mother of Heracles, grandmother of the suppliant children, who shelters Macaria's sister within the shrine and later anxiously awaits news of the battle.

    Iolaus:
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    NemeanClassical · Greek

    Mother of the infant Heracles, who leaps from her bed to defend her sons against Hera's serpents.

    for she herself leapt to her feet from her bed, unrobed as she was, and tried to ward off the violent attack of the monsters.
    chapter 1
    But as for me, I cling to the theme of Heracles gladly, rousing an ancient story from among the great heights of his excellence, how, when the son of Zeus suddenly came out of his mother’s womb into the brilliant light, escaping her birth-pangs, with his twin brother, he did not escape the notice of gold-throned Hera when he was placed in his saffron swaddling-clothes.
    chapter 1
    Zeus made this saying clear by visiting Alcmena and Danae, and he united the fruit of intelligence with straightforward justice in the father of Adrastus and in Lynceus.
    chapter 10

    HeraclesClassical · Greek

    Mortal wife of Amphitryon and, by Zeus, mother of Heracles; granddaughter of Perseus.

    All hail the marriage!
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    the other, Zeus, who came to wed the bride sprung from Perseus;
    heracles
    We have not come to do your city any hurt, but our warfare is against the house of one man only, against him whom they call the son of Zeus and Alcmena.
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    Shield of HeraclesClassical · Greek

    Wife of Amphitryon, daughter of Electryon, mother of Heracles by Zeus and of Iphicles by Amphitryon.

    So in one night Zeus shared the bed and love of the neat-ankled daughter of Electryon and fulfilled his desire;
    chapter 1
    And she, being subject in love to a god and to a man exceeding goodly, brought forth twin sons in seven-gated Thebes.
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    Or like her who left home and country and came to Thebes, following warlike Amphitryon,—even Alcmena, the daughter of Electryon, gatherer of the people.
    shield of heracles

    TheogonyClassical · Greek

    A mortal woman, mother of Heracles by Zeus.

    And Alcmena was joined in love with Zeus who drives the clouds and bore mighty Heracles.
    chapter 17
    And mighty Heracles, the valiant son of neat-ankled Alcmena, when he had finished his grievous toils, made Hebe the child of great Zeus and goldshod Hera his shy wife in snowy Olympus.
    theogony

    Hymn 15 To HeraclesClassical · Greek

    Mythological woman named as the mother of Heracles.

    Alcmena bare him in Thebes, the city of lovely dances, when the dark-clouded Son of Cronos had lain with her.
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    HelenClassical · Greek

    Mortal woman whom Zeus approached in the likeness of her husband Amphitryon, mother of Heracles.

    For in the likeness of Amphitryon he came to Alcmena, and as a shower of gold he united with Danae, and in the guise of a swan he took refuge in the bosom of Nemesis, and again in this form he espoused Leda;
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    While he was devoted most of all to the son of Alcmena and to the sons of Leda, yet his preference for Helen, as compared with Heracles, was so great that, although he conferred upon his son strength of body, which is able to overpower all others by force, yet to her he gave the gift of beauty, which by its nature brings even strength itself into subjection to it.
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    IsthmeanClassical · Greek

    Mother of Heracles, said to have borne her 'fearless son' in Thebes.

    Alcmena’s son.
    chapter 4
    Since the Isthmus gave to the people of Cadmus six garlands from her games, the glory of triumph for my fatherland, where Alcmena bore her fearless son, before whom the bold hounds of Geryon once trembled.
    chapter 1

    OlympianClassical · Greek

    Mother of Heracles, whose bastard brother Licymnius was killed by Tlepolemus.

    For indeed, striking Licymnius, the bastard brother of Alcmena, with a staff of hard olive-wood as he came out of the chamber of Midea, the founder of this land once killed that man, in anger.
    chapter 7

    PythianClassical · Greek

    The mortal woman who, lying with both her husband Amphitryon and with Zeus, bore the twins Heracles and Iphicles in a single birth.

    Wise Alcmena lay with Amphitryon and with Zeus, and bore in a single birth twin sons, strong and victorious in battle.
    chapter 9

    AmphitruoHellenistic · Latin

    Wife of Amphitryon and daughter of Electryon; unknowingly deceived by Jupiter into intimacy, left pregnant by both her husband and the god, and eventually delivered of Hercules and Iphiclus.

    ALCMENA, wife of Amphitryon.
    chapter 1
    whose wife is Alcmena, daughter of Electryon.
    chapter 2
    What has been done there at the army, my father is now relating to Alcmena.
    book 9