Alcmene

Family: Greek · Role: heroine · First appears: Book 1 · Chapter 41

Life events

• Alcmene died at Megara while journeying from Argos to Thebes.(Book 1 · Chapter 41 · 📍 Megara)
  • “She died they say at Megara on her journey from Argos to Thebes”
• Apollo’s oracle directed that Alcmene be buried at Megara.(Book 1 · Chapter 41 · 📍 Megara)
  • With: Apollo
  • “But Apollo at Delphi gave the oracular response that it would be better for them to bury Alcmena at Megara.”

Book 1 · Chapter 41

• with Apollo (Apollo gave an oracle concerning the burial of Alcmene.) “But Apollo at Delphi gave the oracular response that it would be better for them to bury Alcmena at Megara”

Also listed in Greek — Minor Figures

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