Alcmaeon in Psophis

Alcmaeon had considerable impact on his successors in the Greek philosophical tradition. Aristotle wrote a treatise responding to him, Plato may have been influenced by his argument for the immortality of the soul, and both Plato and Philolaus accepted his view that the brain is the seat of intelligence. 1.1 Medical Writer or Philosopher? Alcmaeon, son of Peirithous (otherwise unknown), lived in the Greek city of Croton on the instep of the boot of Italy. Diogenes Laertius, in his brief life of Alcmaeon (VIII. Alcmaeon in Psophis (Greek Ἀλκμαίων στην Ψωφίδα ) is a preserved only in fragments tragedy of the Greek playwright Euripides, which was 438 BC premiered as the second part of a tetralogy at the Dionysia. The first part of the tetralogy was the piece Cretans inside, of Alcmaeon in Psophis followed Telephus and then instead of a satyr play the play Alcestis. Euripides followed in his early works the formula to follow up on the Dionysia a play about an evil woman a piece about a woman in need. Alcmaeon distinguished himself greatly in it, and slew Laodamas, the son of Eteocles.4. He first came to Oicles in Arcadia, and thence went to Phegeus in Psophis, and being purified by the latter, he married his daughter Arsinoe or Alphesiboea,5 to whom he gave the necklace and peplos of Harmonia. But the country in which he now resided was visited by scarcity, in consequence of his being the murderer of his mother, and the oracle advised him to go to Achelous. In Greek mythology, Alcmaeon, or Alkmáon (Ἀλκμαίων), was the son of Amphiaraus and Eriphyle. As one of the Epigoni, he was a leader of the Argives who attacked Thebes, taking the city in retaliation for the deaths of their fathers, the Seven Against Thebes, who died while attempting the same thing. Pindar's eighth Pythian ode relates a prophecy by Amphiarus that the Epigoni will conquer Thebes, and that Alcmaeon will be the first through the gates. Apollodorus also states that the other Epigoni Alcmaeon in Psophis (Ancient Greek: Ἀλκμαίων ὠδιὰ Ψωφῖδος, AlkmaiÅn ho dia Psophidos) is a play by Athenian playwright Euripides. The play has been lost except for a few surviving fragments. It was first produced in 438 BCE in a tetralogy that also included the extant Alcestis and the lost Cretan Women and Telephus. The story is believed to have incorporated the death of Argive hero Alcmaeon.[1]. Alcmaeon in Psophis.