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Anaxibia

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[an-ak-sib-ee-uh] / ˌæn ækˈsɪb i ə /

noun

Classical Mythology.

  1. a daughter of Atreus and Aërope, and the sister of Agamemnon and Menelaus.

  2. the wife of Nestor.

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With Anaxibia, Alcestis came, A warm flush spreading o'er her eager face In looking on the rider of the woods, And knowing him her suitor and the king.

From The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume 1 by Lazarus, Emma

And according to Hesiod, Pleisthenes was a son of Atreus and Aerope, and Agamemnon, Menelaus and Anaxibia were the children of Pleisthenes and Cleolla the daughter of Dias.

From Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica by Evelyn-White, Hugh G. (Hugh Gerard)

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