Anaxibia

A daughter of Pleisthenes, and sister of Agamemnon, married Strophius and became the mother of Pylades.1 Hyginus2 calls the wife of Strophius Astyoche. Eustathius3 confounds Agamemnon's sister with the daughter of Cratieus, saying that the second wife of Nestor was a sister of Agamemnon.

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References

Notes

  1. Pausanias. Description of Greece i, 29.4; Scholiast on Euripides' Orestes, 764, 1235.
  2. Fabulae, 117.
  3. on Homer's Iliad ii, 296

Source

  • 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.