Alcmeon
mythological figure · 2 works · 3 mentions · 3 anchored passages
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Lucullus
Mythological matricide figure from tragedy whose words about disagreement between heart and sight are cited as illustrating the mad recognizing their delusions.
The same befalls the mad, so that, both as they begin to rave they feel and say that something seems to them which is not, and, when they relax, they feel it, and say those words of Alcmeon:
and Alcmeon, "but in no way does my heart agree";
What of your own Alcmeon, who denies that his heart agrees with his eyes — does he not in the same place, his madness roused, cry, "whence rises this flame?
Concerning the Team of Horses
Ancestor of Alcibiades on the maternal Alcmeonid side, said to be the first Athenian Olympic victor with a team of horses.
for Alcmeon was the first Athenian to win at Olympia with a team of horses, and the goodwill which they had toward the people they displayed in the time of the tyrants.