Anaxibia
Appearance
Anaxibia (/ænəkˈsɪbiə/; Ancient Greek: Ἀναξίβια) is the name of six characters in Greek mythology.
- Anaxibia, daughter of Bias and Iphianassa, and niece of Melampus. She married Pelias, to whom she bore Acastus, Pisidice, Pelopia, Hippothoe, Alcestis, and Medusa.[1][2] She was sometimes called Alphesiboea[3] or Phylomache, daughter of Amphion.
- Anaxibia, daughter of Atreus and Aerope or, alternatively, of Pleisthenes and Aerope or Pleisthenes and Cleolla (daughter of Dias), and sister of Agamemnon and Menelaus.[4] She married Strophius, king of Phocis, becoming mother of Pylades.[5][6] She is also known as Astyoche[7] or Cydragora.[8]
- Anaxibia, one of the Danaids, married to Archelaus, son of Aegyptus.[9]
- Anaxibia, daughter of Cratieus. She married Nestor and is the mother of Pisidice, Polycaste, Perseus (son of Nestor), Stratichus, Aretus, Echephron, Peisistratus, Antilochus, and Thrasymedes.[10] More commonly, Eurydice of Pylos is considered to be Nestor's wife and the mother of these children.[11]
- Anaxibia, a naiad of the Ganges river. She fled from the advances of Helios. Artemis hid her in the sanctuary on Mount Koryphe.[12][13]
- Anaxibia, mother of Maeander by Cercaphus.[14]
References
- ^ Hyginus, Fabulae, 51. Alcestis
- ^ Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 1.9.10.
- ^ Theocritus, Idylls, 3. 45
- ^ Hesiod. Catalogue of Women 69: Agamemnon
- ^ Pausanias, Description of Greece, 2. 29. 4
- ^ Scholia on Euripides, Orestes, 765 & 1233
- ^ Hyginus, Fabulae, 117. Clytemnestra
- ^ Scholia on Euripides, Orestes, 33
- ^ Apollodorus, Library, 2.1.5.
- ^ Apollodorus, Library, 1.9.9.
- ^ Homer, Odyssey, 3. 452
- ^ Pseudo-Plutarch, On Rivers, 3. 3
- ^ Theoi Project - Helios Loves
- ^ Pseudo-Plutarch, On Rivers, 9. 1