Alkimenes (son of Jason)
Alkimenes ( Greek Ἀλκιμένης ) is a figure in Greek mythology . In the variant of the myth handed down by Diodorus , he is one of the three sons of Jason and Medea .
After Diodorus report on Dionysius Skytobrachion back, Alkimenes along with his twin brother Thessalos in Corinth born, where her parents Jason and Medea after their banishment from Iolcus live; his younger brother is Tisandros . After ten years in exile, Jason leaves Medea to marry the king's daughter Glauke . Medea then poisons Glauke, kills two of her three sons (Thessalus survived), whom she buried in the temple of Hera , and flees Corinth to Thebes . Jason decides to commit suicide . The Corinthians ask the Oracle of Delphi how to deal with the children's bodies, and the Pythia instructs them to render heroic honors to their tomb.
literature
- Heinrich Wilhelm Stoll : Alkimenes 2 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1,1, Leipzig 1886, column 237 ( digitized version ).