Alcibie

Family: Amazons · Role: princess and handmaid · First appears: Book I · Part 1

Life events

• The son of Tydeus killed Alcibie.(Book I · Part 3 · 📍 the Trojan plain)
  • With: Diomedes
  • “And on Alcibie Tydeus' terrible son Swooped, and on Derimacheia: head with neck Clean from the shoulders of these twain he shore With ruin-wreaking brand. Together down Fell they, as young calves by the massy axe Of brawny flesher felled, that, shearing through The sinews of the neck, lops life away. So, by the hands of Tydeus' son laid low Upon the Trojan plain, far, far away From their own highland-home, they fell.”

Book I · Part 1

• employer: Penthesileia “Far-famous each, yet handmaids unto her:”

Book I · Part 3

• with Diomedes (He killed Alcibie.) “And on Alcibie Tydeus' terrible son Swooped, and on Derimacheia: head with neck Clean from the shoulders of these twain he shore”

Also listed in Amazons — Minor Figures

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Extracted from the original text of The Fall of Troy. Made with Rho MD.