The Alcmaeonis in the Theban Epic Cycle

The Alcmaeonis, as Bernabé prints it, gives a funeral games blow: godlike Telamon struck a head with a wheel-shaped discus, and Peleus, quickly shaking a well-bronzed axe in his hand, hit mid-back. Another fragment lays the corpse on a broad pallet on the ground, sets a rich feast and cups beside them, and puts wreaths on their heads.

A separate line invokes lady Earth and Zagreus (πότνια Γῆ, Ζαγρεῦ). Bernabé prints the fragment in Poetae Epici Graeci 1 (Leipzig, 1987).

The surviving text is epic Cycle hexameter — discus, axe, funeral, Zagreus — a poem behind the title.