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 Translation for 'Alcmena' from English to Greek
μυθολ.
Alcmena {noun}
Αλκμήνη {η}
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Translation for 'Alcmena' from English to Greek

Alcmena {noun}
Αλκμήνη {η}μυθολ.
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Usage Examples English
  • When rancorous Alcmena arrived to Thebes, she declared that she would not marry Amphitryon until he avenged her brothers, who had died during the war between Mycenae and Taphos.
  • A connection between Genius and Jupiter seems apparent in Plautus' comedy "Amphitryon", in which Jupiter takes up the looks of Alcmena's husband in order to seduce her: J.
  • Alcmena grieves about her own downfall, arising out of the death of Hercules. Alcmena, in her grief, chants a funeral dirge.
  • "Pediasia alcmena" is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Stanisław Błeszyński in 1965. It is found in northern Iran.
  • Meanwhile, the god Jupiter is sleeping with Amphitryon's wife Alcmena.

  • Heracles is the son of Zeus and Alcmena, after whom the asteroids [...] and [...] were named.
  • or Alcmena ([...]; Ancient Greek: Ἀλκμήνη or Doric Greek: Ἀλκμάνα, Latin: Alcumena means "strong in wrath") was the wife of Amphitryon by whom she bore two children, Iphicles and Laonome.
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