Alcaeus (mythology)

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In Greek mythology, Alcaeus /ælˈsəs/ or Alkaios (Ancient Greek: Ἀλκαῖος derived from alke "strength") was the name of a number of different people:[1]

Notes

  1. ^ Schmitz, Leonhard (1867). "Alcaeus". In William Smith (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 1. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. pp. 94–95. Archived from the original on 2008-05-01.
  2. ^ Hesiod, Shield of Heracles 26; Apollodorus, 2.4.5-6; Pausanias, 8.14.2; Scholiast on Euripides, Hecuba 86
  3. ^ Diodorus Siculus, 4.10.1
  4. ^ Herodotus, 1.7
  5. ^ Diodorus, 4.31 ad by Wesseling
  6. ^ Comp. Hellanicus, in Stephanus, s.v. Ἀκέλη (where Heracles is said to have had a son Acelus by Malis, a handmaiden of Omphale)
  7. ^ Diodorus, 5.79.2
  8. ^ Apollodorus, 2.5.9
  9. ^ Quintus Smyrnaeus, 10.138 ff.

References

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domainSmith, William, ed. (1870). "Alcaeus". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.