Alcimedon

Family: Greek mythology · Role: one of the men called Heroes · First appears: Book 8 · Chapter 12

Life events

• Alcimedon exposed Phialo and newborn Æchmagoras after discovering her motherhood.(Book 8 · Chapter 12 · 📍 Ostracina)
  • With: Phialo Æchmagoras
  • “When Alcimedon found out she was a mother he exposed her and her boy immediately after his birth on the mountain. Æchmagoras was the name given to the boy according to the Arcadians.”

Book 8 · Chapter 12

• child: Phialo “Hercules according to the tradition of the Phigalians had an intrigue with Phialo, the daughter of this Alcimedon.”
• with Æchmagoras (Alcimedon is Æchmagoras's maternal grandfather by inference.) “When Alcimedon found out she was a mother he exposed her and her boy immediately after his birth on the mountain.”

Also listed in Greek Mythology — Minor Figures

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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.