Auteur(s) : R.D. CROMEY (Virginia Commonwealth Univ., Richmond, USA)
Titre : The Alkmeonidai in Late Tradition
Revue : L’Antiquité Classique
Volume : 47
Date : 1978
Pages : 448-457

Abstract:
The testimony of late antiquity concerning the Athenian genos of the Alkmeonidai often is deceptive. A new examination of the “evidence” offers the following negative conclusions. Although an “Alkmeonides” existed about 510 BC, no surviving historian speaks of him. Neither “Kedon” nor “Alkmeon” fought at Leipsydrion, according to literature. Pindar wrote no poem on Alkmeon’s meeting with Kroisos; he was not Herodotos’ source for the story. Literary tradition did not suppose that Alkmeonids existed in Athens under Theseus; a “Neleid” origin is not, thus, controverted.