Set index of characters in Greek mythology
Anaxibia (; Ancient Greek : Ἀναξίβια ) is the name of six characters in Greek mythology .
Anaxibia, one of the Danaïdes , married to Archelaus , son of Aegyptus .[ 1]
Anaxibia, a naiad of the Ganges river. She fled from the advances of Helios , but she disappeared in Artemis 's sanctuary on Mount Koryphe.[ 2]
Anaxibia, mother of Maeander by Cercaphus .[ 3]
Anaxibia, daughter of Bias and Iphianassa , and niece of Melampus . She married Pelias , King of Iolcus , to whom she bore Acastus , Pisidice , Pelopia , Hippothoe , Alcestis , and Medusa .[ 4] She was sometimes called Alphesiboea [ 5] or Phylomache , daughter of Amphion .[ 6]
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 .[ 7] More commonly, Eurydice of Pylos is considered to be Nestor's wife and the mother of these children.[ 8]
Anaxibia, daughter of Atreus and Aerope or, alternatively, of Pleisthenes and Aerope[ 9] or Pleisthenes and Cleolla (daughter of Dias ), and sister of Agamemnon and Menelaus .[ 10] She married Strophius , king of Phocis , becoming mother of Pylades .[ 11] Anaxibia was also known as Astyoche [ 12] or Cydragora .[ 13]
Notes
^ Apollodorus , 2.1.5
^ Pseudo-Plutarch , De fluviis 4 . Pseudo-Plutarch attributed this story to Clitophon the Rhodian's first book of Indian Relations , perhaps writing down an Indian tale using the names of the Greek gods via interpretatio graeca.
^ Pseudo-Plutarch, De fluviis 9
^ Apollodorus, 1.9.10 ; Hyginus , Fabulae 51
^ Theocritus , Idylls 3.45
^ Apollodorus, 1.9.10
^ Apollodorus, 1.9.9
^ Homer , Odyssey 3.452
^ Tzetzes , Exeg. in Homer, Iliad p. 68, 20 with Hesiod as authority
^ Hesiod, Ehoiai 69
^ Pausanias , 2.29.4 ; Scholia on Euripides , Orestes 765 & 1233
^ Hyginus, Fabulae 117
^ Scholia on Euripides, Orestes 33
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