In Greek mythology, Alcmene or Alcmena was the wife of Amphitryon, by whom she bore two children, Iphicles and Laonome. She is best known as the mother of Heracles, whose father was the god Zeus. Alcm
Birth of Heracles by Jean-Jacques-François Le Barbier
Eriphyle was a figure in Greek mythology who, in exchange for the Necklace of Harmonia given to her by Polynices, persuaded her husband Amphiaraus to join the doomed expedition of the Seven against Th
Polynices offers Eriphyle the Necklace of Harmonia. Red-figure oenochoe by the Mannheim Painter, ca. 450–440 BC, Louvre Museum.