[3][4] Phegeus gladly helped him, and afterward he gave Alphesiboea as wife to Alcmaeon, who gifted the cursed necklace of Harmonia and her robe to his new bride.
[5][6] They lived together for a while during which Alphesiboea gave birth to a son named Clytius,[7] but Alcmaeon's curse for murdering his mother did not go away; either his disease worsened,[6] or the ground grew infertile,[5] disrupting agriculture and bringing a great famine to the land.
[9][4] So Alcmaeon was forced to return to Psophis and his lawful wife,[10] where he was ambushed and treacherously killed by Alphesiboea's two brothers,[9] who were acting on their father Phegeus’ command.
[11] When Alphesiboea reprimanded her male relatives for the unjust murder of Alcmaeon,[12] her brothers locked her in a chest and sold her as slave to the Tegean Agapenor, falsely claiming it had been her who slew her husband.
[15] Meanwhile Theodectes' lost Alcmeon appears to cover the events during the early days of Alcmaeon's arrival at Psophis, when he was still a relative stranger to Alphesiboea and giving her an account of his previous life and misdeeds, trying to justify his murder of Eriphyle.