[1] Alcimede’s father was King Phylacus,[2] eponymous founder of Phylace, and sister of Iphiclus[3] and Clymenus.
In some accounts, Alcimede was called the daughter of Autolycus; the same was said of Polymele, another possible mother of Jason.
[5] The old story of Alcimede's son Jason and the quest for the golden fleece is most familiar from a late version, the Argonautica of Apollonius of Rhodes.
A hint of matrilineal descent in archaic times among the Boeotian Minyans of Greece is in Apollonius' aside concerning Jason's heritage: A further hint of archaic matrilineal descent is that Clymene's consort is offered in two versions: she was usually cast as the wife of Phylacus (son of Deioneus, son of Aeolus) or in some versions, Aeson was fathered by Cephalus, otherwise the consort of Procris.
She hanged herself or else drank, along with her husband and the child Promachus, of bull's blood and so died.