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Anaxibia

Anaxibia is the name of six characters in Greek mythology.Anaxibia, one of the Danaïdes, 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, King of Iolcus, to whom she bore Acastus, Pisidice, Pelopia, Hippothoe, 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, 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, and sister of Agamemnon and Menelaus. She married Strophius, king of Phocis, becoming mother of Pylades. Anaxibia was also known as Astyoche or Cydragora.

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Anaxibia (/ænəkˈsɪbiə/; Ancient Greek: Ἀναξίβια) is the name of six characters in Greek mythology.

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  1. Apollodorus, 2.1.5
  2. 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.
  3. Pseudo-Plutarch, De fluviis 9
  4. Apollodorus, 1.9.10; Hyginus, Fabulae 51
  5. Theocritus, Idylls 3.45
  6. Apollodorus, 1.9.10
  7. Apollodorus, 1.9.9
  8. Homer, Odyssey 3.452
  9. Tzetzes, Exeg. in Homer, Iliad p. 68, 20 with Hesiod as authority
  10. Hesiod, Ehoiai 69
  11. Pausanias, 2.29.4; Scholia on Euripides, Orestes 765 & 1233
  12. Hyginus, Fabulae 117
  13. Scholia on Euripides, Orestes 33
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