Anaxibia (; The name is derived from Anax (ἄναξ) meaning "lord," "master," "king," or "military leader" and Bia (βία) meaning "force," "strength," "might," or "violence".) is the name of six characters in Greek mythology.
Anaxibia, one of the Danaïdes, married to Archelaus, son of Aegyptus.Apollodorus, 2.1.5 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.Apollodorus, 1.9.10; Hyginus, Fabulae 51 She was sometimes called AlphesiboeaTheocritus, Idylls 3.45 or Phylomache, daughter of Amphion.Apollodorus, 1.9.10 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.Apollodorus, 1.9.9 More commonly, Eurydice of Pylos is considered to be Nestor's wife and the mother of these children.Homer, Odyssey 3.452 Anaxibia, daughter of Atreus and Aerope or, alternatively, of Pleisthenes and AeropeTzetzes, Exeg. in Homer, Iliad p. 68, 20 with Hesiod as authority or Pleisthenes and Cleolla (daughter of Dias), and sister of Agamemnon and Menelaus.Hesiod, Ehoiai 69 She married Strophius, king of Phocis, becoming mother of Pylades.Pausanias, 2.29.4; Scholia on Euripides, Orestes 765 & 1233 Anaxibia was also known as AstyocheHyginus, Fabulae 117 or Cydragora.Scholia on Euripides, Orestes 33 Anaxibia, a naiad of the Ganges river. She fled from the advances of Helios, but she disappeared in Artemis's sanctuary on Mount Koryphe.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. Anaxibia, mother of Maeander by Cercaphus.Pseudo-Plutarch, De fluviis 9
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