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Question 43. Why is the city of the Ithacans called
Alalcomenae?
Solution. It is affirmed by most, that it was because
Anticlea in the time of her virginity was forcibly seized
upon by Sisyphus, and brought forth Ulysses. But Ister
the Alexandrian hath acquainted us in his memoirs, that
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Anticlea was married to Laertes, and being brought to a
place about the Alalcomeneum in Boeotia, was delivered
of Ulysses; and therefore Ulysses called the city of Ithaca
by the same name, to renew the memory of the place in
which he had been born.
Plutarch. Plutarch's Morals. Translated from the Greek by several hands. Corrected and revised by. William W. Goodwin, PH. D. Boston. Little, Brown, and Company. Cambridge. Press Of John Wilson and son. 1874. 2.
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