Alcyoneus
historical figure · 4 works · 4 mentions · 5 anchored passages
in the texts
Isthmean
A giant herdsman 'huge as a mountain,' encountered at Phlegrae and slain by Heracles.
He took Pergamos, and with Telamon’s help he slew the tribes of Meropes, and the herdsman Alcyoneus, huge as a mountain, whom he found at Phlegrae, and he did not keep his hands off the deep-voiced bow-string, not
Nemean
A giant opponent defeated by Heracles and Telamon after felling many chariots and warriors with a hurled rock.
For he looked on a hospitable city, when he came as a friend to friends, to the prosperous court of Heracles, with whom once powerful Telamon destroyed Troy and the Meropes and the great and terrible warrior Alcyoneus, but not before that giant had laid low, by hurling a rock, twelve chariots and twice twelve horse-taming heroes who were riding in them.
Consolatio ad Apollonium
The son of King Antigonus, slain in battle after rushing recklessly upon the thickest of his enemies, addressed posthumously by his father in a speech noting his own foreseen fate.
King Antigonus, when he heard the death of his son Alcyoneus who was slain in battle, looking steadily upon the messengers of these sad tidings, after a little interval of silence and with a modest countenance, spoke thus:
Pyrrhus
Son of Antigonus who first brings Pyrrhus's severed head to his father disrespectfully, then later treats Helenus with kindness.
and when Alcyoneus found Helenus in an abject state and wearing a paltry cloak, and spoke to him kindly and brought him into the presence of his father, Antigonus was pleased with his conduct, and said:
Presently what had happened was known to many, and Alcyoneus, running to the spot, asked for the head as if he would see whose it was.