Anaxibia

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

1. Hyginus, Fabulae, 51. Alcestis
2. Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 1.9.10.
3. Theocritus, Idylls, 3. 45
4. Hesiod. Catalogue of Women 69: Agamemnon
5. Pausanias, Description of Greece, 2. 29. 4
6. Scholia on Euripides, Orestes, 765 & 1233
7. Hyginus, Fabulae, 117. Clytemnestra
8. Scholia on Euripides, Orestes, 33
9. Apollodorus, Library, 2.1.5.
10. Apollodorus, Library, 1.9.9.
11. Homer, Odyssey, 3. 452
12. Pseudo-Plutarch, On Rivers, 3. 3
13. Theoi Project - Helios Loves
14. Pseudo-Plutarch, On Rivers, 9. 1