Alcmene was, in ancient
Greek mythology, the daughter of Electryon
?, king of Mycenae, and wife of Amphitryon
?. She was the mother of
Heracles by
Zeus, who assumed the likeness of her husband during his absence, and the mother of Iphicles
? by Amphitryon. She was regarded as the ancestress of the
Heracleidae, and worshipped at Thebes
? and
Athens.
See Winter, Alkmene und Amphitryon (1876).
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