eul_aid: bsq
DOI 10.5281/zenodo.20335421
The Alcmaeonis
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The Alcmaeonis in the Theban Epic Cycle

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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, PEG 1 (Leipzig, 1987), p. 33, is the hosted edition of the epic Cycle fragment under this eul_aid.

The Greek is those Cycle hexameters — discus, axe, funeral, Zagreus — not a title with no poem behind it.

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