Anaxibia (;
Ancient Greek
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: ) is the name of six characters in
Greek mythology
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.
*Anaxibia, one of the
Danaïdes
In Greek mythology, the Danaïdes (; ), also Danaides or Danaids, were the fifty daughters of Danaus, king of Ancient Libya, Libya. Danaus and the Danaids feared that Danaus's twin brother, Aegyptus, was plotting to overthrow and kill them. So, t ...
, married to
Archelaus, son of
Aegyptus.
*Anaxibia, a
naiad of the
Ganges river. She fled from the advances of
Helios, but she disappeared in
Artemis's sanctuary on Mount Koryphe.
*Anaxibia, mother of
Maeander by
Cercaphus.
*Anaxibia, daughter of
Bias and
Iphianassa, and niece of
Melampus. She married
Pelias
Pelias ( ; Ancient Greek: Πελίας) was king of Iolcus in Greek mythology. He was the one who sent Jason on the quest for the Golden Fleece.
Family
Pelias was the son of Tyro and Poseidon. His wife is recorded as either Anaxibia, ...
, King of
Iolcus, to whom she bore
Acastus,
Pisidice,
Pelopia,
Hippothoe
In Greek mythology, Hippothoe (Ancient Greek: Ἱπποθόη ''Hippothoê'' means 'swift as a mare') is the name of five distinct characters.
* Hippothoe, the "lovely" Nereids, Nereid and one of the 50 marine-nymph daughters of the 'Old Man of t ...
,
Alcestis, and
Medusa. She was sometimes called
Alphesiboea or
Phylomache, daughter of
Amphion.
*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. More commonly,
Eurydice of Pylos is considered to be Nestor's wife and the mother of these children.
*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. She married
Strophius, king of
Phocis
Phocis (; ; ) is one of the regional units of Greece. It is part of the administrative region of Central Greece. It stretches from the western mountainsides of Parnassus on the east to the mountain range of Vardousia on the west, upon the Gu ...
, becoming mother of
Pylades. Anaxibia was also known as
Astyoche or
Cydragora.
[Scholia on Euripides, ''Orestes'' 33]
Notes
References
*
Apollodorus, ''The Library'' with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. ISBN 0-674-99135-4
Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.Greek text available from the same website
* Gaius Julius Hyginus, ''Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus'' translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies
Online version at the Topos Text Project.
* Hesiod, ''Catalogue of Women'' from ''Homeric Hymns, Epic Cycle, Homerica'' translated by Evelyn-White, H G. Loeb Classical Library Volume 57. London: William Heinemann, 1914
Online version at theio.com
*Homer
Homer (; , ; possibly born ) was an Ancient Greece, Ancient Greek poet who is credited as the author of the ''Iliad'' and the ''Odyssey'', two epic poems that are foundational works of ancient Greek literature. Despite doubts about his autho ...
, ''The Odyssey'' with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, PH.D. in two volumes. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1919.
Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.Greek text available from the same website
* Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus, ''Morals'' translated from the Greek by several hands. Corrected and revised by. William W. Goodwin, PH. D. Boston. Little, Brown, and Company. Cambridge. Press Of John Wilson and son. 1874. 5
Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
* Pausanias, ''Description of Greece'' with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918.
Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
*Pausanias, ''Graeciae Descriptio.'' ''3 vols''. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903.
Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library
* Pseudo-Plutarch, ''De fluviis'', in ''Plutarch's morals, Volume V'', edited and translated by William Watson Goodwin, Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1874
Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
* Theocritus, ''Idylls'' from ''The Greek Bucolic Poets t''ranslated by Edmonds, J M. Loeb Classical Library Volume 28. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. 1912
Online version at theoi.com
*Theocritus, ''Idylls'' edited by R. J. Cholmeley, M.A. London. George Bell & Sons. 1901
Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
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