Alalcomenes
Ἀλαλκομένης
(Ἀλαλκομένης), a Boeotian autochthon, who was believed to have given the name to the Boeotian Alalcomenae, to have brought up Athena, who was born there, and to have been the first who introduced her worship. (Paus. 9.33.4.) According to Plutarch (De Dacdal. Fragm. 5), he advised Zeus to have a figure of oak-wood dressed in bridal attire, and carried about amidst hymeneal songs, in order to change the anger of Hera into jealousy. The name of the wife of Alalcomenes was Athenais, and that of his son, Glaucopus, both of which refer to the goddess Athena. (Steph. Byz. s. v. Ἀλαλκομένιον; Paus. 9.3.3; comp. Dict. of. Ant. s. V. Δαίδαλα; Müller, Orchom. p. 213.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. 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.