ALCMAEON  , of See also:

• ARGOS

Argos, in See also:

• GREEK
• GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

Greek See also:

• LEGEND (through the French from the med. Lat. legenda, things to be read, from legere, to read)

legend, was the son of Arilphiaraus and See also:

• ERIPHYLE

Eriphyle . When his See also:

• FATHER

father set out with the expedition of the Seven against See also:

• THEBES (anciently &Oat, Thebae, or in poetry sometimes Oif3a, in modern Greek Phiva, or, according to the corrected pronunciation, Thivae)
• THEBES (e 3a1)
• THEBES, ROMANCE OF

Thebes, which he knew would be fatal to him, he enjoined upon his sons to avenge his See also:

• DEATH

death by slaying Eriphyle and undertaking a second expedition against Thebes . After the destruction of Thebes by the See also:

• EPIGONI (" descendants ")

Epigoni, Alcmaeon carried out his father's injunctions by killing his See also:

• MOTHER

mother, as a See also:

• PUNISHMENT (from Lat. punire, to punish, from poena, punishment, Gr. 7rocvil)

punishment for which he was driven mad and pursued by the See also:

• ERINYES (Lat. Furiae)

Erinyes from See also:

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place to place . On his arrival at Psophis in See also:

• ARCADIA

Arcadia, he was purified by its See also:

• KING
• KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
• KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
• KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
• KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
• KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
• KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
• KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
• KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
• KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
• KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
• KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)

king Phegeus, whose daughter See also:

• ARSINOE

Arsinoe (or Alphesiboea) he married, making her a See also:

• PRESENT

present of the fatal necklace and the peplus of See also:

• HARMONIA

Harmonia . But the See also:

• LAND

land was cursed with barrenness, and the See also:

• ORACLE (Lat. oraculum, from ora' to pray; the corresponding Greek word is uavreiov or Xpnuri7pwov)

oracle declared that Alcmaeon would never find See also:

• REST (O. Eng. rest, reste, bed, cognate with other Teutonic forms, e.g. Ger. Rast, Riiste, rest, and probably Gothic Rasta, league, i.e. resting or stopping place)

rest until he reached a spot on which the See also:

• SUN
• SUN (0. Eng. sonne, Ger. sonne. Fr. soleil, Lat. sol, Gr. ijXior, from which comes helio- in various English compounds)

sun had never shone at the See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time he slew his mother . Such a spot he found at the mouth of the See also:

• RIVER

river See also:

• ACHELOUS (mod. Aspropotamo, " white river ")

Achelous, where an See also:

• ISLAND (O.E. ieg =isle, +land')

island had recently been formed by the alluvial See also:

• DEPOSIT (Lat. depositurn, from deponere, to lay down, to put in the care of)

deposit; here he settled and, forgetting his wife Arsinoe, married See also:

• CALLIRRHOE

Callirrhoe, the daughter of the river-See also:

• GOD

god . His new wife longed for the necklace and peplus, and Alcmaeon, returning to Psophis, obtained See also:

• POSSESSION
• POSSESSION (Lat. possessio, possidere, to possess)

possession of them, on the pretence that he desired to dedicate them at See also:

• DELPHI (the Pytho of Homer and Herodotus; in Boeotian inscriptions BeA4oi, on coins Aa)tg5oi)

Delphi . When the truth became known he was pursued and slain by Phegeus and his sons . After his death Alcmaeon was worshipped at Thebes; his See also:

• TOMB (Gr. Tuµ/3a, Tuµ(3os, probably allied to Lat. tumulus, literally a swelling, tumere, to swell)

tomb was at Psophis in a See also:

• GROVE (O.E. graf, cf. O.E. gr(efa, brushwood, later" greave "; the word does not appear in any other Teutonic language, and the New English Dictionary finds no Indo-European root to which it can be referred; Skeat considers it connected with " grave," to
• GROVE, SIR GEORGE (182o-1900)
• GROVE, SIR WILLIAM ROBERT (1811-1896)

grove of cypresses . His See also:

• STORY, JOHN (c. 1510-1571)
• STORY, JOSEPH (1779-1845)
• STORY, ROBERT HERBERT (1835-1907)
• STORY, WILLIAM WETMORE (1819—1895)

story was the subject of an old epic and of several tragedies, but none of these has been preserved . See also:

• HOMER, WINSLOW (1836-191o)

Homer, Odyssey xv . 248; See also:

• APOLLODORUS

Apollodorus iii .

7; See also:

• THUCYDIDES (OovavMns)

Thucydides ii . 68, 102; See also:

• PAUSANIAS

Pausanias viii . 24, X . 10; See also:

• OVID [PUBLIUS OvID1us NASO] (43 B.C.–A.D. 17)

Ovid, Metam. ix . 400 et seq .