Galaxy/The codex of Anaxibia

Wife of Pelias at Iolcus in Apollodorus and Hyginus — daughter of Bias (`bias-aeolid`) — by whom he begot Acastus and the daughters Pisidice, Pelopia, Hippothoe, and Alcestis.1

I

When Pelias dwelt in Thessaly he married Anaxibia, daughter of Bias, and begat a son, Acastus, and daughters, Pisidice, Pelopia, Hippothoe, and Alcestis — the royal brood from which the Iolcan succession and the Pheraean queen Alcestis both descend.2

II

Hyginus names the same queen at the wooing of Alcestis: many suitors sought the daughter of Pelias and Anaxibia, Bias' daughter, until Admetus won her by yoking a lion and a boar to a chariot with Apollo's help.3

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BEYOND THE POETS

How the centuries since have seen Anaxibia — art, artifacts and echoes.

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