Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology/Anaxibia

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ANAXI′BIA (Ἀναξιϐία). 1. A daughter of Bias and wife of Pelias, by whom she became the mother of Acastus, Peisidice, Pelopia, Hippothoë, and Alcestis. (Apollod. i. 9. §10.)

2. A daughter of Cratieus, and second wife of Nestor. (Apollod. i. 9. §9.)

3. A daughter of Pleisthenes, and sister of Agamemnon, married Strophius and became the mother of Pylades. (Paus. i. 29. §4; Schol. ad Eurip. Orest. 764, 1235.) Hyginus (Fab. 117) calls the wife of Strophius Astyochea. Eustathius (ad Il. ii. 296) confounds Agamemnon's sister with the daughter of Cratieus, saying that the second wife of Nestor was a sister of Agamemnon. There is another Anaxibia in Plut. de Flum. 4.

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