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Having acquainted their mother with these things, they
went to Delphi and dedicated the necklace and
robe1 according to
the injunction of Achelous. Then they journeyed to Epirus, collected settlers, and colonized Acarnania.2
But Euripides says3 that in the time of his madness
Alcmaeon begat two children, Amphilochus and a daughter Tisiphone, by Manto, daughter of
Tiresias, and that he brought the babes to Corinth and gave them to Creon, king of Corinth, to bring up; and that on account of her extraordinary comeliness
Tisiphone was sold as a slave by Creon's spouse, who feared that Creon might make her his
wedded wife. But Alcmaeon bought her and kept her as a handmaid, not knowing that she was
his daughter, and coming to Corinth to get
back his children he recovered his son also. And Amphilochus colonized
Amphilochian Argos in obedience to
oracles of Apollo.4
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1 According to Paus. 8.24.10; Paus. 9.41.2, it was the sons of Phegeus, not the sons of Alcmaeon, who dedicated the necklace at Delphi. The necklace, or what passed for it, was preserved at Delphi in the sanctuary of Forethought Athena as late as the Sacred War in the fourth century B.C., when it was carried off, with much more of the sacred treasures, by the unscrupulous Phocian leader, Phayllus. See Parthenius, Narrat. 25 （who quotes Phylarchus as his authority）; Athenaeus vi.22, p. 232 DE （who quotes the thirtieth book of the history of Ephorus as his authority）.
2 Compare Thuc. 2.102.9; Paus. 8.24.9, who similarly derive the name of Acarnania from Acarnan, son of Alcmaeon. Pausanias says that formerly the people were called Curetes.
3 The reference is no doubt to one of the two lost tragedies which Euripides composed under the title Alcmaeon. See TGF (Nauck 2nd ed.), pp. 479ff.
4 Amphilochian Argos was a city of Aetolia, situated on the Ambracian Gulf. See Thuc. 2.68.3, who represents the founder Amphilochus as the son of Amphiaraus, and therefore as the brother, not the son, of Alcmaeon. As to Amphilochus, son of Amphiaraus, see above, Apollod. 3.7.2.
Apollodorus. Apollodorus, The Library, with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. Includes Frazer's notes.
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