Editing Alcmene (section)

===Exile to Thebes===
According to the ''[[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Bibliotheca]]'', Alcmene went with [[Amphitryon]] to [[Ancient Thebes (Boeotia)|Thebes]], where he was purified by [[Creon of Thebes|Creon]] for accidentally killing [[Electryon]]. Alcmene refused to marry Amphitryon until he had avenged the death of her brothers.<ref name="Apollod. 2.4.6">Apollodorus, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+2.4.6&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022:book=:chapter=&highlight=Alcmena 2.4.6]</ref> During Amphitryon's expedition against the [[Taphians]] and [[Teleboans]],<ref name="Apollod. 2.4.7">Apollodorus, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+2.4.7&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022:book=:chapter=&highlight=Amphitryon 2.4.7]</ref> when [[Zeus]] desired to sleep with Alcmene, he made one night last longer extending it to three, by ordering [[Helios]], the [[Solar deity|sun god]], not to rise for three whole days.<ref>Apollodorus, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+2.4.8&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022:book=:chapter=&highlight=Alcmena 2.4.8]; [[Seneca the Younger|Seneca]], ''[[Hercules (Seneca)|Hercules Furens]]'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:2007.01.0003 24]; ''[[Argonautica Orphica]]'' [https://topostext.org/work/549#113 118-121]; [[Lucian]], ''[[Dialogues of the Gods]]'' [https://pt.calameo.com/read/000107044fc0f01286992 Hermes and Helios]</ref> He then visited Alcmene disguised as Amphitryon. Zeus persuaded Alcmene that he was her husband.<ref>Roman, L., & Roman, M. (2010). {{Google books|tOgWfjNIxoMC|Encyclopedia of Greek and Roman mythology.|page=54}}</ref> Thus Zeus slept with Alcmene, his great-granddaughter, thereby conceiving [[Heracles]], while recounting Amphitryon's victories against the Teleboans. When Amphitryon finally returned to Thebes, Alcmene told him that he had come the night before and slept with her; he learned from [[Tiresias]] what Zeus had done.<ref name="Apollod. 2.4.8">Apollodorus, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+2.4.8&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022:book=:chapter=&highlight=Alcmena 2.4.8]</ref>