Alcmæon

, was son of the prophet Amphiaraus and Eriphyle. His father going to the Theban war, where, according to an oracle, he was to perish, charged him to revenge his death upon Eriphyle, who had betrayed him. See: Eriphyle . As soon as he heard of his father’s death, he murdered his mother, for which crime the Furies persecuted him till Phlegeus purified him and gave him his daughter Alphesibœa in marriage. Alcmæon gave her the fatal collar which his mother had received to betray his father, and afterwards divorced her, and married Callirhoe the daughter of Achelous, to whom he promised the necklace which he had given to Alphesibœa. When he attempted to recover it, Alphesibœa’s brothers murdered him on account of the treatment which he had shown their sister, and left his body a prey to dogs and wild beasts. Alcmæon’s children by Callirhoe revenged their father’s death by killing his murderers. See: Alphesibœa , Amphiaraus . Pausanias , bk. 5 , ch. 17 ; bk. 6 , ch. 18 ; bk. 8 , ch. 24 .— Plutarch , de Exilio .— Apollo dor us , bk. 3 , ch. 7 .— Hyginus , fables 73 & 245.— Statius , Thebiad , bks. 2 & 4.— Ovid , Fasti , bk. 2 , li. 44 ; Metamorphoses , bk. 9, fable 10.――A son of Ægyptus, the husband of Hippo medusa. Apollo dor us. ――A philosopher, disciple to Pythagoras, born in Croton a. He wrote on physic, and he was the first who di ected animals to examine into the structure of the human frame. Cicero , de Natura Deorum , bk. 6 , ch. 27 .――A son of the poet Æschylus, the 13th archon of Athens.――A son of Syllus, driven from Me enia with the rest of Nestor’s family, by the Heraclidæ. He came to Athens, and from him the Alcmæonidæ were descended. Pausanias , bk. 1 , ch. 18 .