Alcmaeon of Croton

Alcmaeon of Croton in Wikipedia

Alcmaeon (Gr. Ἀλκμαίων, Alkmaiōn, gen.: Ἀλκμαίωνος; 5th century BC) of Croton (in Magna Græcia) was one of the most eminent natural philosophers and medical theorists of antiquity. His father's name was Peirithus (Peirithos). He is said by some to have been a pupil of Pythagoras, and he may have been born around 510 BC.[1] Although he wrote mostly ...

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Alcmaeon in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

Alcmaeon （Ἀλκμαίων). A native of Argos and son of Amphiaraüs (q.v.) and Eriphylé. As his father, in departing on the expedition of the Seven against Thebes, had bound him and his brother Amphilochus, then mere boys, to avenge him on their faithless mother, Alcmaeon refused to take part in the second expedition, that of the Epigoni (q.v.), till he h...

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