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Alcimenes

Alcimenes

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Alcimenes (/ælˈsɪməniːz/, Ancient Greek: Ἀλκιμένης) can refer to a number of people in Greek mythology and history:

Mythology

History

  • Alcimenes, an Athenian comic poet, apparently a contemporary of Aeschylus. One of his pieces is supposed to have been titled "The Female Swimmers" (Κολυμβῶσαι). His works were greatly admired by Tynnichus, a younger contemporary of Aeschylus.
  • Alcimenes, a tragic writer who was a native of Megara, mentioned in the Suda.[6][7][8]

Notes

  1. [1]
    Apollodorus, 1.9.3 & 2.3.1
  2. [2]
    Hesiod, Ehoiai fr. 7; Hyginus, Fabulae 157
  3. [3]
    Apollodorus, 2.3.1
  4. [4]
    Diodorus Siculus, 4.54.55
  5. [5]
    Schmitz, Leonhard (1867). "Alcimenes 1-2". In William Smith (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 1. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. p. 102. Archived from the original on 2007-10-28.
  6. [6]
    Augustus Meineke, Hist. Crit. Comicorum Graec. p. 481; Suda s.v. Ἀλκιμένης and Ἀλκμάν
  7. [7]
    Suda, s.v. Ἀλκιμένης and Ἀλκμάν
  8. [8]
    Mason, Charles Peter (1867). "Alcimenes 3". In William Smith (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 1. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. p. 102. Archived from the original on 2007-10-28.

References

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

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