Alcathoea
ἀλκαθοῖα
Alcathoea (ἀλκαθοῖα), games celebrated at Megara, in commemoration of the Eleian hero Alcathoos, son of Pelops, who had killed a lion which had destroyed Euippus, son of king Megareus. (Pind. Isthm. 8.148; Paus. 1.42.1.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.