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Alcmene

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Alcmene

In Greek mythology, the wife of Amphitryon. Zeus, the king of the gods, visited Alcmene in the form of her husband, and the child of their union was the Greek hero Heracles.



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That bird Heracles, the valiant son of shapely-ankled Alcmene, slew; and delivered the son of Iapetus from the cruel plague, and released him from his affliction -- not without the will of Olympian Zeus who reigns on high, that the glory of Heracles the Theban-born might be yet greater than it was before over the plenteous earth.
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