Alci'menes
(
Ἀλκμένης), an Athenian comic poet, apparently a contemporary of Aeschylus. One of his pieces is supposed to have been the
Κολυμβῶσαι (the Female Swimmers). His works were greatly admired by Tynnichus, a younger contemporary of Aeschylus.
There was a tragic writer of the same name, a native of Megara, mentioned by Suidas. (Meineke,
Hist. Crit. Comicorum Graec. p. 481; Suid.
s. v. Ἀλκιμένης and
Ἀλκμάν.)
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