Alcmene

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Alcmene
Alcmena is the name of a spider genus.; 82 Alkmene is an asteroid. In Greek mythology  Alcmene (Greek  ) was the mother of Heracles. She was the daughter of Electryon, king of Mycenae and a son of Perseus. Her mother was either Anaxo, sister of Amphitryon, and thus Electryon's niece, or a daughter of Pelops, either Eurydice or Lysidice. Alcmena was the wife of Amphitryon in his exile, though he had accidentally killed her father.
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Alcmene
[Greek heroic] The wife of Amphitryon. While he was away, Zeus appeared before her in Amphitryon's guise, and seduced her. She became by him the mother of Heracles.


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