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Alcmena

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Canonical name
Alcmena
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Individual
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Location presence

Phase 6 currently covers 24 processed books.

2
Thebes2 observations
·Remembered

Jove recalls Alcmena in Thebes.

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Alcmena in Thebes by whom I begot my lion-hearted son Hercules
·Remembered

In Agamemnon’s recollected story, Alcmena is to give birth to Hercules in the fair city of Thebes.

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Time was when she fooled Jove himself, who they say is greatest whether of gods or men; for Juno, woman though she was, beguiled him on the day when Alcmena was to bring forth mighty Hercules in the fair city of Thebes.

Claims

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·Remembered

Jove recalls Alcmena at Thebes as mother of his lion-hearted son Hercules.

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Alcmena in Thebes by whom I begot my lion-hearted son Hercules,
·Reported

Agamemnon’s story says Alcmena was due to give birth to mighty Hercules that day.

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on the day when Alcmena was to bring forth mighty Hercules
·Reported

Juno is said to have delayed Alcmena’s offspring.

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she stayed the offspring of Alcmena

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2
·Remembered
Alcmena in Thebes by whom I begot my lion-hearted son Hercules
·Reported
Alcmena was to bring forth mighty Hercules in the fair city of Thebes

Passage preview

Book 14 · Passage 25

And Jove said, ‘Juno, you can choose some other time for paying your visit to Oceanus—for the present let us devote ourselves to love and to the enjoyment of one another. Never yet have I been so overpowered by passion neither for goddess nor mortal woman as I am at this moment for yourself—not even when I was in love with the wife of Ixion who bore me Pirithous, peer of gods in counsel, nor yet with Danae the daintily-ancled daughter of Acrisius, who bore me the famed hero Perseus. Then there was the daughter of Phoenix, who bore me Minos and Rhadamanthus: there was Semele, and Alcmena in Thebes by whom I begot my lion-hearted son Hercules, while Semele became mother to Bacchus the comforter of mankind. There was queen Ceres again, and lovely Leto, and yourself—but with none of these was I ever so much enamoured as I now am with you.’