Alcmaeon

American  

[alk-mee-uhn] / ælkˈmi ən /

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.

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Example Sentences

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 • Apr. 13, 2018

Alcmaeon, that they receive their nourishment from every part of the body; as a sponge sucks in water.

From Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies by Plutarch

His new wife longed for the necklace and peplus, and Alcmaeon, returning to Psophis, obtained possession of them, on the pretence that he desired to dedicate them at Delphi.

From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

Alcmaeon says that a moist warmth in the tongue, joined with the softness of it, gives the difference of taste.

From Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies by Plutarch

His conception is paralleled by that of another physician, Alcmaeon, of Proton, who contended that man's ideas of the gods amounted to mere suppositions at the very most.

From A History of Science — Volume 1 by Williams, Edward Huntington