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Alalcomenia
Alalcomenia (Ancient Greek: ) was, in Greek mythology, one of the daughters of Ogyges. She and her two sisters, Thelxionoea and Aulis, were regarded as supernatural beings who watched over oaths and saw that they were not taken rashly or thoughtlessly. Their name was the "Praxidikai" (), and they had a temple in common at the foot of the Telphusian mount in Boeotia.
These three were sometimes rendered as a single goddess, "Praxidike", "she who exacts punishment".
in Stephanus), who raised the goddess Athena there.
- Pausanias also records an account that it was named after Alalcomenia, daughter of Ogygus, King of the Ectenes, the people to first occupy the land of Thebes.
- According to Stephanus of Byzantium, the Alexandrian scholar Aristarchus of Samothrace believed the town was named from the Greek verb "to protect" (< ), to reflect Athena's role as defender of the town. The early "D" scholia on the "Iliad" also reflect this