Alcmaeon

[ alk-mee-uhn ]

noun

, Classical Mythology.

1. a son of Amphiaraus and Eriphyle who commanded the second expedition against Thebes. He killed his mother for sending his father to certain death and was driven mad by the Furies.

Example Sentences

Known as “mechanical phosphenes,” the stars that appear when you rub your eyes were first described by an ancient Greek philosopher and physiologist named Alcmaeon, said John Pezaris, the head of the Visual Prosthesis Laboratory at Massachusetts General Hospital and an assistant professor of neurosurgery at Harvard University.

From Scientific American

The origin of movement had bewitched some of history’s shrewdest minds: Alcmaeon, Plato, Aristotle, Posidonius, Al-Razi, Descartes, Newton, Franklin.

From New York Times

But Alcmaeon’s zest for the impure was not shared by most of his Pythagorean colleagues in later times. an imperfect reflection.

From Literature

“Okay, see Tisiphone’s father, Alcmaeon, accidentally left her and her brother, Amphilochus, with Creon, who was king of Thebes. Now Tisiphone, even as a young girl, was a total hottie, so Creon’s evil wife sold her into slavery. What the wife didn’t realize was that the guy who bought Tisiphone was actually working for Alcmaeon, her father. See? It was all a big plan to save his children.”

From Literature

It led to the death of Eriphyle, of Alcmaeon, of Phegeus and his sons.

From Project Gutenberg