person
Alcmena
Mortal mother of Hercules, who bore him to Jupiter and laments having pleased a powerful god.
Reading notes
- The Heroides §9 my mother
Alcmena, Hercules' mother by Jupiter, who 'complains that she pleased a powerful god.'
- Metamorphoses §9.254 Alcmena
Mother of Hercules by Jupiter; in old age she recounts to Iole her son's labors and her own grievous childbed.