Anaxibia

"Anaxibia" also refers to a spider genus in the family Dictynidae.

Anaxibia (/ænəkˈsɪbiə/; Ancient Greek: Ἀναξίβια) is the name of six characters in Greek mythology.

• Anaxibia, the 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),^[4] and sister of Agamemnon and Menelaus. 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, Stratichus, Aretus, Echephron, Peisistratus, Antilochus, and Thrasymedes.^[10] More commonly, Eurydice is considered to be Nestors's wife and the mother of these children.^[11]

• Anaxibia, a naiad of the River Ganges. 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]

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