Definitions for Alcmaeon

Alcmaeon Alc·mae·on

Spelling: [alk-mee-uh n]
IPA: /ælkˈmi ən/

Alcmaeon is a 8 letter English word.

You can make 280 anagrams from letters in Alcmaeon (aacelmno).

Definitions for Alcmaeon

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  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.

Examples for Alcmaeon

However, Alcmaeon's sin was too great for any such cleansing.

Alcmaeon is considered in the companion chapter on Greek Medicine.

Alcmaeon, the head, for that is the commanding and the principal part of the body.

She asks for the necklace and Alcmaeon goes back to get it from Arsinoë.

Alcmaeon slew his mother and became in consequence mad and accursed.

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

Alcibiades, it is supposed, was descended from Ajax, by his father's side; and by his mother's side from Alcmaeon.

Alcmaeon introduced also the doctrine that health depends on harmony, disease on discord of the elements within the body.

One member of the Crotonian school, Alcmaeon, achieved great distinction in both anatomy and physiology.

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

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