Alcaeus

A son of Perseus and Andromeda, and married to Hipponome, the daughter of Menoeceus of Thebes, by whom he became the father of Amphitryon and Anaxo.1 According to Pausanias2 his wife's name was Laonome, a daughter of the Arcadian Guneus, or Lysidice, a daughter of Pelops.

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References

Notes

  1. Pseudo-Apollodorus. The Library ii, 4.5; Scholiast on Euripides' Hecuba, 886.
  2. Description of Greece viii, 14.2.

Source

  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.

This article incorporates text from Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (1870) by William Smith, which is in the public domain.