Daughter of Alcaeus and wife of his brother Electryon at Mycenae, mother of Alcmena and of the nine sons who fell fighting the Taphians — the Perseid queen through whom Electryon's line passed into the birth-saga of Heracles.1
Apollodorus names Anaxo among the children Alcaeus begot — sister of Amphitryon — and records that Electryon married her, his niece and his brother's daughter. By Anaxo he had a daughter, Alcmena, and nine sons: Stratobates, Gorgophonus, Phylonomus, Celaeneus, Amphimachus, Lysinomus, Chirimachus, Anactor, and Archelaus.2
The marriage knit Alcaeus' two lines into one house: Anaxo bore Electryon the mother of Heracles, while her brother Amphitryon would afterward marry that daughter Alcmena — so Alcaeus stood as father of one parent and grandfather of the other. When the Taphians raided Electryon's cattle, all nine legitimate sons died in the counter-attack; only Licymnius, Electryon's bastard by the Phrygian Midea, survived among the king's male children.3
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