Alcmaeon
Leader of the
Epigoni, and son of Amphiaraus and Eriphyle. Eriphyle hade made her husband
take part in the war against Thebes, and after he was killed she made her
son do the same.
Alcmaeon went to the oracle of Delphi, and was told to kill his mother. After
he had commited the matricide, he went insane, and the punishing goddesses
Erinyes haunted him.
Finally Alcmaeon came to king Psophis of Arcadia, where he married the king's
daughter Arsinoe. Arcadia went barren because of Alcmaeons presence and he
then fled to the river Anchelous and married the river-god's daughter
Callirhoe.
King Psophis and his sons eventually caught up with Alcmaeon and killed him.