Alexida

"Defender." A daughter of Amphiaraus, from whom certain divinities called Elasii (i.e. averters of epileptic fits) were believed to be descended.

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References

Sources

  • Plutarch. Greek Questions xxiii, 296.
  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.

This article incorporates text from Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (1870) by William Smith, which is in the public domain.