Alcmeon
mythological figure · 2 works · 3 mentions · 3 anchored passages
in the texts
Lucullus
Mythological matricide figure from tragedy whose words about disagreement between heart and sight are cited as illustrating the mad recognizing their delusions.
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?
and Alcmeon, "but in no way does my heart agree";
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.