Alalcomenae (Ithaca)

Alalcomenae or Alalkomenai (Ancient Greek: Ἀλαλκομ́εναι), or Alcomenae or Alkomenai (Ἀλκομεναί), was a town in Ithaca,^[1] or in the small island Asteris in the neighbourhood of Ithaca.^[2]

According to Istros the Callimachean, Anticlea gave birth to Odysseus near Alalcomenae in Boeotia; consequently, Odysseus named an Ithacan town Alalcomenae in commemoration of his birthplace.^[3]

Its site is located at the palaiokastro on modern Aëtos.^[4]^[5]

References

^ Plutarch, Quaest. Graec. 43; Stephanus of Byzantium. Ethnica. Vol. s.v.
^ Strabo. Geographica. Vol. 10.2.16. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
^ The Roman and Greek Questions, by Plutarch, tr. Frank Cole Babbitt, [1936, at sacred-texts.com, 43]
^ Talbert, Richard, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 54. ISBN 978-0-691-03169-9, with accompanying Map-by-Map Directory.
^ Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Alalcomenae". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.