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Headword:
*)alkai=os
Adler number: alpha,1272
Translated headword: Alkaios, Alcaeus
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Son] of Omphale[1] and Herakles. He became great and strong and noble in war.
Greek Original:*)alkai=os: *)omfa/lhs kai\ *(hrakle/ous. e)ge/neto me/gas kai\ i)sxuro\s kai\ ta\ pole/mia gennai=os.
Notes:
For other individuals of this name see
alpha 1273 and
alpha 1274. Quite a common name in mythology: see also
Apollodorus,
Library 2.4.5. (A. the son of Perseus and Andromeda) and 2.5.9 (A. the son of Androgeos). However, the one in question here, as we see, is a figure in the royal genealogy of
Lydia. The Suda's material is unparalleled elsewhere, but Paradiso [below] marshals linguistic and other evidence for regarding its ultimate source as
Nicolaus of Damascus.
[1] Queen of
Lydia; OCD(4) s.v. (pp.1038-9).
Annalisa Paradiso, 'A new fragment for Nicolaus of Damascus? A note on Suda alpha 1272', Histos 9 (2015) 67-75 (on-line: web address 1)
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; ethics; geography; historiography; military affairs; mythology; women
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 11 May 2000@21:16:48.
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