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Anaxibia (/ænəkˈsɪbiə/; 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]
- ^ 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