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ALCAEUS ( Ἄλκαιος, ὁ) son of Heracles

CHRISTOPHER BARON

University of Notre Dame

According to Herodotus (1.7.2), Alcaeus was a son of HERACLES born to a female slave of IARDANUS (or perhaps to his daughter named DOULĒ). In the more common version of the story, Heracles became a slave of Omphale, daughter of Iardanus and queen of LYDIA (Gantz, EGM 439–42). Elsewhere, the name Alcaeus refers to Heracles’ grandfather, or Heracles’ original name (Diod. Sic. 1.24.4). Herodotus names Alcaeus’ great‐grandson, AGRON, as the first Heraclid king of Lydia; the last of this dynasty, CANDAULES, loses his throne to GYGES SON OF DASCYLUS.