Alcaeus
2. According to Diodorus (1.14) the original name of Heracles, given him on account of his descent from Alcaeus, the son of Perseus. [HERACLES.]
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.