Alcimenes (/ælˈsɪmənz/, 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. Apollodorus, 1.9.3 & 2.3.1
  2. Hesiod, Ehoiai fr. 7; Hyginus, Fabulae 157
  3. Apollodorus, 2.3.1
  4. Diodorus Siculus, 4.54.55
  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. Augustus Meineke, Hist. Crit. Comicorum Graec. p. 481; Suda s.v. Ἀλκιμένης and Ἀλκμάν
  7. Suda, s.v. Ἀλκιμένης and Ἀλκμάν
  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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