Alcaeus

A son of Heracles by a female slave of Iardanus, from whom the dynasty of the Heraclidae in Lydia were believed to be descended.1 Diodorus2 calls this son of Heracles, Cleolaus.

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Comp. Hellanicus ap. Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Ἀκέλη.

References

Notes

  1. Herodotus. Histories i, 7.
  2. iv, 31.

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.