) uata) in Delphi, of which Athenaeus quotes the
In this work he was said to have been assisted by second book.
In this work he was said to have been assisted by second book.
William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - a
p.
96) inter-
The fragments of Alcaeus were first collected prets to mean that he was a cleruchus, or holder of
by Mich. Neander in his “Aristologia Pindarica," one of the kiñpo: Leninos. Voss, who is fol-
Basil. 1556, 8vo. , then by Henry Stephens in his lowed by Thiersch (Epochen der bild. K'unst, p.
collection of the fragments of the nine chief lyric | 130), conjectured that the true reading is nipinos,
1
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ALCAMENES.
97
ALCATHOUS.
and accordingly that Alcamenes was born in the of carving as an amateur. (Winckelmann, vii. 4,
district called the Aluval, which is in some degree 5. ).
(C. P. M. )
confirmed by his having made a statue of Dionysus ALCANDER ("Arnavopos). There are three
in gold and ivory to adorn a temple of that god in mythical personages of this name, who are men-
the Lenaeum, a part of the Limnae. (Paus. i. 20. tioned respectively in Hom. II. v. 678 ; Virg. Aen.
§ 2. ) He was the most famous of the pupils of ix. 766 ; Antonin. Lib. 14. A female Alcandra
Phidias, but was not so close an imitator of his occurs in the Od. iv. 125.
(L. S. )
master as Agoracritus. Like his fellow-pupil, he ALCANDER ("Annavopos), a young Spartan,
exercised his talent chiefly in making statues of who attacked Lycurgus and thrust out one of his
the deities. By ancient writers he is ranked eyes, when his fellow-citizens were discontented
amongst the most distinguished artists, and is con- with the laws he proposed. His mangled face,
sidered by Pausanias second only to Phidias. however, produced shame and repentance in his
(Quintil. xii. 10. § 8; Dionys. De Demosth. acum. enemies, and they delivered up Alcander to him to
vol. vi. p. 1108, ed. Reiske; Paus. v. 10. $ 2. ) be punished as he thought fit. But Lycurgus par-
He flourished from about OL. 84 (Plin. H. N. xxxiv. doned his outrage, and thus converted him into
8. s. 19) to Ol. 95 (B. C. 444-400). Pliny's date is one of his warmest friends. (Plut. Lyc. ! l; Aclian,
confirmed by Pausanias, who says (viii. 9. § 1), that V. H. xiii. 23; Val. Max. v. 3. $ ext. 2. )
Praxiteles #ourished in the third generation after ALCA'THOE or ALCI'THOE ('Alcalón or
Alcamenes ; and Praxiteles, as Pliny tells us, flour-'Almidón), a daughter of Minyas, and sister of
ished about Ol. 104 (B. C. 364). The last works Leucippe and Arsippe. Instead of Arsippe, Ae-
of his which we bear of, were the colossal statues lian (V. H. iii. 42) calls the latter Aristipps, and
of Athene and Hercules, which Thrasybulus erected Plutarch (Quaest. Gr. 38) Arsinoë. At the time
in the temple of Hercules at Thebes after the ex- when the worship of Dionysus was introduced into
pulsion of the tyrants from Athens. (B. C. 403. ) Boeotia, and while the other women and maidens
The most beautiful and renowned of the works of were revelling and ranging over the mountains in
Alcamenes was a statue of Venus, called from the Bacchic joy, these two sisters alone remained at
place where it was set up, 'H év in Tous 'Appo home, devoting themselves to their usual occupa-
Bitn. (Lucian, Imagines, 4, 6; Paus i. 19. & 2. ) tions, and thus profaning the days sacred to the
It is said that Phidias himself put the finishing god. Dionysns punished them by changing them
touches to this work. (Plin. H. N. XXXvi. 6. B. 4. ) into bats, and their work into rines. (Or. Met.
The breasts, cheeks, and hands were especially iv. 1—40, 390—415. ) Plutarch, Aelian, and
admired. It has been supposed by some that this Antoninus Liberalis, thougb with some differences
was the Venus for which he gained the prize over in the detail, reiate that Dionysus appeared to the
Agoracritus. There is no direct evidence of this, sisters in the form of a maiden, and invited them
and it is scarcely consistent with what Pliny says, to partake in the Dionysiac mysteries. When
that Alcamenes owed his success more to the fa. this request was not complied with, the god meta-
vouritism of his fellow-citizens than to the excel- morphosed himself successively into a bull, a lion,
lence of his statue. Another celebrated specimen and a panther, and the sisters were seized with
of his genius was the western pediment of the madness. In this state they were eager to honour
temple at Olympia, ornamented with a representa- the god, and Leucippe, who was chosen by lot
tion of the batile between the Centaurs and the to offer a sacrifice to Dionysus, gave up her own
Lapithae. (Paus. v. 10. § 2. ) Other works of his son Hippasus to be torn to pieces. In extreme
were: a statue of Mars in the temple of that god Bacchic frenzy the sisters now roamed over the
at Athens (Paus. i. 8. & 5); a statue of Hephae mountains, until at last Hermes changed them into
stus, in which the lameness of the god was so in- birds. Plutarch adds that down to his time the
geniously represented as not to give the appearance men of Orchomenos descended from that family
of deformity (Cic. De Nat. Deor. i. 30; Val. Max. were called Yoaders, that is, mourners, and the wo-
viii. 11. ext. 3); an Aesculapius at Mantineia men dacia, or alonciat, that is, the destroyers. In
(Paus. viii. 9. § 1); a three-formed Hecate (the what manner the neglect of the Dionysiac worship
first of the kind), and a Procne in the Acropolis at on the part of Alcathoë and her sister was atoned
Athens (Paus. ii. 30. § 2, i. 24. & 3); and a bronze for every year at the festival of the Agrionia, see
statue of a victor in the Pentathlon. (Plin. xxxiv. Dict. of Ant. s. v. 'Aypávia ; comp. Buttmann,
8. &. 19. ) A story of very doubtful credibility is Mytholog. ii. p. 201, &c.
(L. S. )
told by Tzetzes (Chil
. viji. 193), that Alcamenes ALCA'THOUS ('Aladdoos). 1. A son of
and Phidias contended in making a statue of Pelops and Hippodameia, brother of Atreus and
Athene, and that before the statues were erected Thyestes, first married Pyrgo and afterwards
in their destined elevated position, that of Alca- Euaechme, and was the father of Echepolis, Cal-
menes was the most admired on account of its de lipolis, Iphinoë, Periboea, and Autoniedusa. (Paus.
licate finish; but that, when set up, the effect of i. 42. & 1, 4, 43. & 4; Apollod. ii. 4. § 11, iji. 12.
the more strongly defined features in that of Phi- $ 7. ) Pausanias (i. 41. § 4) relates that, after
dias caused the Athenians to change their opinion. Euippus, the son of king Megareus, was destroyed
On a Roman anaglyph in the villa Albani there by the Cythaeronian lion, Megareus, whose elder
is the following inscription :
son Timalcus had likewise fallen by the hands of
Q. LOLLIUS ALCAMENES
Theseus, offered his daughter Euaechme and his
DEC. ET DUUMVIR.
kingdom to him who should slay that lion. Al.
If this contains the name of the artist, he would cathous undertook the task, conquered the lion,
seem to have been a descendant of an Alcamenes, and thus obtained Euaechme for his wife, and
who had been the slave and afterwards the freed- afterwards became the successor of Megareus. In
man of one of the Lollian family, and to have at gratitude for this success, he built at Megara a
tained to the dignity of decurio and duumvir in temple of Artemis Agrotera and Apollo Agmeus.
some municipium. He perbaps exercised the art He also restored the walls of Megara, which hand
a
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ALCIBIADES.
ALCETAS.
1
been destroyed hy the Cretans. (l'ans. i. t). $ 5.
) uata) in Delphi, of which Athenaeus quotes the
In this work he was said to have been assisted by second book. (xiii. p. 591, a. )
Apollo, and the stone, upon which the god used to A'LCETAS I. ('Aakétas), king of Epirus, was
place his lyre while he was at work, was even in the son of Tharypus. For some reason or other,
late times believed, when struck, to give forth a which we are not inforined of, he was expelled
sound similar to that of a lyrc. (Paus. i. 42. $ 1; from his kingdom, and took refuge with the elder
Ov. Mct. vij. 15, &c. ; Virg. Cir. 105; Theogn. Dionysius, tyrant of Syracuse, by whom he was
751. ) Echepolis, one of the sons of Alcathous, reinstated. After his restoration we find him the
was killed during the Calydonian hunt in Actolia, ally of the Athenians, and of Jason, the Taguis of
and when his brother Callipolis hastened to carry Thessaly. In B. c. 373, he appeared at Athens
the sad tidings to his father, he found him en- with Jason, for the purpose of defending Timo
giged in offering a sacrifice to Apollo, and think theus, who, through their influence, was acquitted.
ing it unfit to offer sacrifices at such a moment, On his death the kingdom, which till then had
he snatched away the wood from the alır. Alca- been governed by one king, was divided between
thous imagining this to be an act of sacrilegious his two sons, Neoptolemus and Arybbas or Arym-
wantonness, killed his son on the spot with a bas. Diodorus (xix. 88) calls him Arybilus.
piece of wood. (Paus. i. 42. $ 7. ) The acropolis (Paus. i. 11. $ 3; Dem. Timoth. pp. 1187, 1190 ;
of Megara was called by a name derived from that Diod. xv. 13. 36. )
(C. P. M. ]
of Alcathous. (i. 42. $ 7. )
A'LCETAS 11. , king of EPIRU's, was the son of
2. A son of Portlaon and Euryte, who was Arynıbas, and grandson of Alcetas I. On account
slain by Tydeus. (A pollod. i. 7. § 10, 8. $ 5; of his ungovernable temper, he was banished by
Diod. iv. 65. )
his father, who appointed his younger son, Aeacides,
3. A son of Aesyetes and husband of Hippo to succeed him. On the death of Acacides, who
dameia, the daughter of Anchises and sister of was killed in a battle fought with Cassander B. C.
Aencas, who was educated in his house. (Hom. / 313, the Epirots recalled Alcetas. Cassander sent
11. xii. 466. ) In the war of Troy he was one of an army against him under the command of Lrcis-
the Trojan leaders, and was one of the handsomest cus, but soon after entered into an alliance with him
and bravest among them. (11. xii. 93, xii. 427. )|(B. C. 312). The Epirots, incensed at the outrages
He was slain by Idomeneus with the assistance of of Alcetas, rose against him and put him to death,
Poseidon, who struck Alcathous with blindness together with his two sons ; on which Pyrrhus,
and paralyzed his limbs so that he could not flee. the son of Aeacides, was placed upon the throne
(Il. xiii. 433, &c. )— Another personage of this by his protector Glaucias, king of the Illyrians,
name is mentioned by Virgil, Aen. x. 747. (L. S. ) B. C. 307. (Paus. i. 11. § 5; Diod. xix. 88, 89;
ALCEIDES ('Almeidns), according to some ac- Plut. Pyrrh. 3. )
(C. P. M. ]
counts the name which Heracles originally bore A'LCETAS ('Alnétas), the eighth king of
(Apollod. ii. 4. § 12), while, according to Diodo MACEDONIA, counting from Caranus, and the fifth,
rus, his original name was ALCAEUS. [L. S. ] counting from Perdiccas, reigned, according to
ALCESTIS or ALCESTE (AANNOTIS or 'AA. Eusebius, twenty-nine years. He was the father
kéoth), a daughter of Pelias and Anaxibia, and of Amyntas I. , who reigned in the latter part of
mother of Eumelus and Admetus. (Apollod. i. 9. the sixth century B. C. (Herod. viii. 139. )
$ 10, 15. ) Homer (Il. ii. 715) calls her the fair- A’LCETAS ('AAkétas), the brother of Perdic-
est among the daughters of Pelias. When Adme- cas and son of Orontes, is first mentioned as one
tus, king of Pherae, sued for her hand, Pelias, in of Alexander's generals in bis Indian expedition.
order to get rid of the numerous suitors, declared (Arrian, iv. 27. ) On the death of Alexander, he
that he would give his daughter to him only who espoused his brother's party, and, at his orders,
should come to his court in a chariot drawn by murdered in B. C. 322 Cyane, the half-sister of
lions and boars. This was accomplished by Ad- Alexander the Great, when she wished to marry
metus, with the aid of Apollo. For the further her daughter Eurydice to Philip Arrhidaeus.
story, see ADMETUS. The sacrifice of herself for (Diod. xix. 52; Polyaen. viii. 60; Arrian, ap.
Admetus was highly celebrated in antiquity. Phot. p. 70, ed. Bekker. ) At the time of Per-
(Aelian, V. H. xiv. 45, Animal. i. 15 ; Philostr. diccas' murder in Egypt in 321, Alcetas was with
Her. ii. 4 ; 0v. Ars Am. iii. 19; Eurip. Alcestis. ) Eumenes in Asia Minor engaged against Craterus;
Towards her father, too, she shewed her filial af- and the army of Perdiccas, which had revolted
fection, for, at least, according to Diodorus (iv. 52; from him and joined Ptolemy, condemned Alcetas
comp. however, Palaeph. De incredib. 4]), she did and all the partizans of his brother to death. The
not share in the crime of her sisters, who mur- war against Alcetas, who had now left Eumenes
dered their father.
and united his forces with those of Attalus, was
Ancient as well as modern critics have attempted entrusted to Antigonus. Alcetas and Attalus were
to explain the return of Alcestis to life in a ration- defeated in Pisidia in 320, and Alcetas retreated
alistic manner, by supposing that during a severe to Termessus. He was surrendered by the elder
illness she was restored to life by a physician of inhabitants to Antigonus, and, to avoid falling into
the name of Heracles. (Palaeph. l. c. ; Plut. Ama- his hands alive, slew himself. (Diod. xviii. 29, 37,
tor. p. 761. ) Alcestis was represented on the 44–46 ; Justin, xiii. 6, 8; Arrian, ap. Phot. l. c. )
chest of Cypselus, in a group shewing the funeral ALCIBI'ADES ('Alkibidons), the
solemnities of Pelias. (Paus. v. 17. & 4. ) In the Cleinias, was born at Athens about B. C. 450, or a
museum of Florence there is an alto reliero, the little earlier. His father fell at Coroneia B. c. 447,
work of Cleomenes, which is believed to represent leaving Alcibiades and a younger son. (Plat. Protag.
Alcestis deroting berself to death. (Meyer, Gesch. p. 320, a. ) The last can paign of the war with
der bildend. Künste
, i, p. 162, ii. 159. ) [L.
The fragments of Alcaeus were first collected prets to mean that he was a cleruchus, or holder of
by Mich. Neander in his “Aristologia Pindarica," one of the kiñpo: Leninos. Voss, who is fol-
Basil. 1556, 8vo. , then by Henry Stephens in his lowed by Thiersch (Epochen der bild. K'unst, p.
collection of the fragments of the nine chief lyric | 130), conjectured that the true reading is nipinos,
1
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ALCAMENES.
97
ALCATHOUS.
and accordingly that Alcamenes was born in the of carving as an amateur. (Winckelmann, vii. 4,
district called the Aluval, which is in some degree 5. ).
(C. P. M. )
confirmed by his having made a statue of Dionysus ALCANDER ("Arnavopos). There are three
in gold and ivory to adorn a temple of that god in mythical personages of this name, who are men-
the Lenaeum, a part of the Limnae. (Paus. i. 20. tioned respectively in Hom. II. v. 678 ; Virg. Aen.
§ 2. ) He was the most famous of the pupils of ix. 766 ; Antonin. Lib. 14. A female Alcandra
Phidias, but was not so close an imitator of his occurs in the Od. iv. 125.
(L. S. )
master as Agoracritus. Like his fellow-pupil, he ALCANDER ("Annavopos), a young Spartan,
exercised his talent chiefly in making statues of who attacked Lycurgus and thrust out one of his
the deities. By ancient writers he is ranked eyes, when his fellow-citizens were discontented
amongst the most distinguished artists, and is con- with the laws he proposed. His mangled face,
sidered by Pausanias second only to Phidias. however, produced shame and repentance in his
(Quintil. xii. 10. § 8; Dionys. De Demosth. acum. enemies, and they delivered up Alcander to him to
vol. vi. p. 1108, ed. Reiske; Paus. v. 10. $ 2. ) be punished as he thought fit. But Lycurgus par-
He flourished from about OL. 84 (Plin. H. N. xxxiv. doned his outrage, and thus converted him into
8. s. 19) to Ol. 95 (B. C. 444-400). Pliny's date is one of his warmest friends. (Plut. Lyc. ! l; Aclian,
confirmed by Pausanias, who says (viii. 9. § 1), that V. H. xiii. 23; Val. Max. v. 3. $ ext. 2. )
Praxiteles #ourished in the third generation after ALCA'THOE or ALCI'THOE ('Alcalón or
Alcamenes ; and Praxiteles, as Pliny tells us, flour-'Almidón), a daughter of Minyas, and sister of
ished about Ol. 104 (B. C. 364). The last works Leucippe and Arsippe. Instead of Arsippe, Ae-
of his which we bear of, were the colossal statues lian (V. H. iii. 42) calls the latter Aristipps, and
of Athene and Hercules, which Thrasybulus erected Plutarch (Quaest. Gr. 38) Arsinoë. At the time
in the temple of Hercules at Thebes after the ex- when the worship of Dionysus was introduced into
pulsion of the tyrants from Athens. (B. C. 403. ) Boeotia, and while the other women and maidens
The most beautiful and renowned of the works of were revelling and ranging over the mountains in
Alcamenes was a statue of Venus, called from the Bacchic joy, these two sisters alone remained at
place where it was set up, 'H év in Tous 'Appo home, devoting themselves to their usual occupa-
Bitn. (Lucian, Imagines, 4, 6; Paus i. 19. & 2. ) tions, and thus profaning the days sacred to the
It is said that Phidias himself put the finishing god. Dionysns punished them by changing them
touches to this work. (Plin. H. N. XXXvi. 6. B. 4. ) into bats, and their work into rines. (Or. Met.
The breasts, cheeks, and hands were especially iv. 1—40, 390—415. ) Plutarch, Aelian, and
admired. It has been supposed by some that this Antoninus Liberalis, thougb with some differences
was the Venus for which he gained the prize over in the detail, reiate that Dionysus appeared to the
Agoracritus. There is no direct evidence of this, sisters in the form of a maiden, and invited them
and it is scarcely consistent with what Pliny says, to partake in the Dionysiac mysteries. When
that Alcamenes owed his success more to the fa. this request was not complied with, the god meta-
vouritism of his fellow-citizens than to the excel- morphosed himself successively into a bull, a lion,
lence of his statue. Another celebrated specimen and a panther, and the sisters were seized with
of his genius was the western pediment of the madness. In this state they were eager to honour
temple at Olympia, ornamented with a representa- the god, and Leucippe, who was chosen by lot
tion of the batile between the Centaurs and the to offer a sacrifice to Dionysus, gave up her own
Lapithae. (Paus. v. 10. § 2. ) Other works of his son Hippasus to be torn to pieces. In extreme
were: a statue of Mars in the temple of that god Bacchic frenzy the sisters now roamed over the
at Athens (Paus. i. 8. & 5); a statue of Hephae mountains, until at last Hermes changed them into
stus, in which the lameness of the god was so in- birds. Plutarch adds that down to his time the
geniously represented as not to give the appearance men of Orchomenos descended from that family
of deformity (Cic. De Nat. Deor. i. 30; Val. Max. were called Yoaders, that is, mourners, and the wo-
viii. 11. ext. 3); an Aesculapius at Mantineia men dacia, or alonciat, that is, the destroyers. In
(Paus. viii. 9. § 1); a three-formed Hecate (the what manner the neglect of the Dionysiac worship
first of the kind), and a Procne in the Acropolis at on the part of Alcathoë and her sister was atoned
Athens (Paus. ii. 30. § 2, i. 24. & 3); and a bronze for every year at the festival of the Agrionia, see
statue of a victor in the Pentathlon. (Plin. xxxiv. Dict. of Ant. s. v. 'Aypávia ; comp. Buttmann,
8. &. 19. ) A story of very doubtful credibility is Mytholog. ii. p. 201, &c.
(L. S. )
told by Tzetzes (Chil
. viji. 193), that Alcamenes ALCA'THOUS ('Aladdoos). 1. A son of
and Phidias contended in making a statue of Pelops and Hippodameia, brother of Atreus and
Athene, and that before the statues were erected Thyestes, first married Pyrgo and afterwards
in their destined elevated position, that of Alca- Euaechme, and was the father of Echepolis, Cal-
menes was the most admired on account of its de lipolis, Iphinoë, Periboea, and Autoniedusa. (Paus.
licate finish; but that, when set up, the effect of i. 42. & 1, 4, 43. & 4; Apollod. ii. 4. § 11, iji. 12.
the more strongly defined features in that of Phi- $ 7. ) Pausanias (i. 41. § 4) relates that, after
dias caused the Athenians to change their opinion. Euippus, the son of king Megareus, was destroyed
On a Roman anaglyph in the villa Albani there by the Cythaeronian lion, Megareus, whose elder
is the following inscription :
son Timalcus had likewise fallen by the hands of
Q. LOLLIUS ALCAMENES
Theseus, offered his daughter Euaechme and his
DEC. ET DUUMVIR.
kingdom to him who should slay that lion. Al.
If this contains the name of the artist, he would cathous undertook the task, conquered the lion,
seem to have been a descendant of an Alcamenes, and thus obtained Euaechme for his wife, and
who had been the slave and afterwards the freed- afterwards became the successor of Megareus. In
man of one of the Lollian family, and to have at gratitude for this success, he built at Megara a
tained to the dignity of decurio and duumvir in temple of Artemis Agrotera and Apollo Agmeus.
some municipium. He perbaps exercised the art He also restored the walls of Megara, which hand
a
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98
ALCIBIADES.
ALCETAS.
1
been destroyed hy the Cretans. (l'ans. i. t). $ 5.
) uata) in Delphi, of which Athenaeus quotes the
In this work he was said to have been assisted by second book. (xiii. p. 591, a. )
Apollo, and the stone, upon which the god used to A'LCETAS I. ('Aakétas), king of Epirus, was
place his lyre while he was at work, was even in the son of Tharypus. For some reason or other,
late times believed, when struck, to give forth a which we are not inforined of, he was expelled
sound similar to that of a lyrc. (Paus. i. 42. $ 1; from his kingdom, and took refuge with the elder
Ov. Mct. vij. 15, &c. ; Virg. Cir. 105; Theogn. Dionysius, tyrant of Syracuse, by whom he was
751. ) Echepolis, one of the sons of Alcathous, reinstated. After his restoration we find him the
was killed during the Calydonian hunt in Actolia, ally of the Athenians, and of Jason, the Taguis of
and when his brother Callipolis hastened to carry Thessaly. In B. c. 373, he appeared at Athens
the sad tidings to his father, he found him en- with Jason, for the purpose of defending Timo
giged in offering a sacrifice to Apollo, and think theus, who, through their influence, was acquitted.
ing it unfit to offer sacrifices at such a moment, On his death the kingdom, which till then had
he snatched away the wood from the alır. Alca- been governed by one king, was divided between
thous imagining this to be an act of sacrilegious his two sons, Neoptolemus and Arybbas or Arym-
wantonness, killed his son on the spot with a bas. Diodorus (xix. 88) calls him Arybilus.
piece of wood. (Paus. i. 42. $ 7. ) The acropolis (Paus. i. 11. $ 3; Dem. Timoth. pp. 1187, 1190 ;
of Megara was called by a name derived from that Diod. xv. 13. 36. )
(C. P. M. ]
of Alcathous. (i. 42. $ 7. )
A'LCETAS 11. , king of EPIRU's, was the son of
2. A son of Portlaon and Euryte, who was Arynıbas, and grandson of Alcetas I. On account
slain by Tydeus. (A pollod. i. 7. § 10, 8. $ 5; of his ungovernable temper, he was banished by
Diod. iv. 65. )
his father, who appointed his younger son, Aeacides,
3. A son of Aesyetes and husband of Hippo to succeed him. On the death of Acacides, who
dameia, the daughter of Anchises and sister of was killed in a battle fought with Cassander B. C.
Aencas, who was educated in his house. (Hom. / 313, the Epirots recalled Alcetas. Cassander sent
11. xii. 466. ) In the war of Troy he was one of an army against him under the command of Lrcis-
the Trojan leaders, and was one of the handsomest cus, but soon after entered into an alliance with him
and bravest among them. (11. xii. 93, xii. 427. )|(B. C. 312). The Epirots, incensed at the outrages
He was slain by Idomeneus with the assistance of of Alcetas, rose against him and put him to death,
Poseidon, who struck Alcathous with blindness together with his two sons ; on which Pyrrhus,
and paralyzed his limbs so that he could not flee. the son of Aeacides, was placed upon the throne
(Il. xiii. 433, &c. )— Another personage of this by his protector Glaucias, king of the Illyrians,
name is mentioned by Virgil, Aen. x. 747. (L. S. ) B. C. 307. (Paus. i. 11. § 5; Diod. xix. 88, 89;
ALCEIDES ('Almeidns), according to some ac- Plut. Pyrrh. 3. )
(C. P. M. ]
counts the name which Heracles originally bore A'LCETAS ('Alnétas), the eighth king of
(Apollod. ii. 4. § 12), while, according to Diodo MACEDONIA, counting from Caranus, and the fifth,
rus, his original name was ALCAEUS. [L. S. ] counting from Perdiccas, reigned, according to
ALCESTIS or ALCESTE (AANNOTIS or 'AA. Eusebius, twenty-nine years. He was the father
kéoth), a daughter of Pelias and Anaxibia, and of Amyntas I. , who reigned in the latter part of
mother of Eumelus and Admetus. (Apollod. i. 9. the sixth century B. C. (Herod. viii. 139. )
$ 10, 15. ) Homer (Il. ii. 715) calls her the fair- A’LCETAS ('AAkétas), the brother of Perdic-
est among the daughters of Pelias. When Adme- cas and son of Orontes, is first mentioned as one
tus, king of Pherae, sued for her hand, Pelias, in of Alexander's generals in bis Indian expedition.
order to get rid of the numerous suitors, declared (Arrian, iv. 27. ) On the death of Alexander, he
that he would give his daughter to him only who espoused his brother's party, and, at his orders,
should come to his court in a chariot drawn by murdered in B. C. 322 Cyane, the half-sister of
lions and boars. This was accomplished by Ad- Alexander the Great, when she wished to marry
metus, with the aid of Apollo. For the further her daughter Eurydice to Philip Arrhidaeus.
story, see ADMETUS. The sacrifice of herself for (Diod. xix. 52; Polyaen. viii. 60; Arrian, ap.
Admetus was highly celebrated in antiquity. Phot. p. 70, ed. Bekker. ) At the time of Per-
(Aelian, V. H. xiv. 45, Animal. i. 15 ; Philostr. diccas' murder in Egypt in 321, Alcetas was with
Her. ii. 4 ; 0v. Ars Am. iii. 19; Eurip. Alcestis. ) Eumenes in Asia Minor engaged against Craterus;
Towards her father, too, she shewed her filial af- and the army of Perdiccas, which had revolted
fection, for, at least, according to Diodorus (iv. 52; from him and joined Ptolemy, condemned Alcetas
comp. however, Palaeph. De incredib. 4]), she did and all the partizans of his brother to death. The
not share in the crime of her sisters, who mur- war against Alcetas, who had now left Eumenes
dered their father.
and united his forces with those of Attalus, was
Ancient as well as modern critics have attempted entrusted to Antigonus. Alcetas and Attalus were
to explain the return of Alcestis to life in a ration- defeated in Pisidia in 320, and Alcetas retreated
alistic manner, by supposing that during a severe to Termessus. He was surrendered by the elder
illness she was restored to life by a physician of inhabitants to Antigonus, and, to avoid falling into
the name of Heracles. (Palaeph. l. c. ; Plut. Ama- his hands alive, slew himself. (Diod. xviii. 29, 37,
tor. p. 761. ) Alcestis was represented on the 44–46 ; Justin, xiii. 6, 8; Arrian, ap. Phot. l. c. )
chest of Cypselus, in a group shewing the funeral ALCIBI'ADES ('Alkibidons), the
solemnities of Pelias. (Paus. v. 17. & 4. ) In the Cleinias, was born at Athens about B. C. 450, or a
museum of Florence there is an alto reliero, the little earlier. His father fell at Coroneia B. c. 447,
work of Cleomenes, which is believed to represent leaving Alcibiades and a younger son. (Plat. Protag.
Alcestis deroting berself to death. (Meyer, Gesch. p. 320, a. ) The last can paign of the war with
der bildend. Künste
, i, p. 162, ii. 159. ) [L.
