Galaxy/The codex of Pisidice

Daughter of Pelias and Anaxibia (`anaxibia-pelias`) at Iolcus — one of the Peliades named in Apollodorus' stemma beside Pelopia, Hippothoe, Alcestis, and their brother Acastus.1

I

Apollodorus counts Pisidice among the daughters whom Pelias begot on Anaxibia, daughter of Bias, at Iolcus — sister to Pelopia, Hippothoe, Alcestis, and Acastus in the genealogical frame that orders the Thessalian royal house before the Argonaut voyage.2

II

When Jason returned from Colchis, Medea showed Pelias's daughters her art: an old ram cut up and boiled in her cauldron leapt forth a lamb. Trusting the promise of renewed youth, the daughters minced and boiled their father — Apollodorus and Ovid tell the fraud without naming each sister, but the Peliades of Bibliotheca 1.9.10 are the household implicated.3

the spine ignites as you read · hover a bond on the card — every mention of them lights in the story

BEYOND THE POETS

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

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