In Greek mythology, Axia (Ancient Greek: Ἀξίας) was a Minyan princess as the daughter of King Clymenus[1] of Orchomenus and Budeia, daughter of Lycus.[2] She was the sister of Erginus,[3] Stration, Arrhon, Pyleus, Azeus[4] and Eurydice, wife of Nestor of Pylos.[5] A town in Ozolian Locris was named after her.[1]

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  1. ^ a b Stephanus of Byzantium, Ethnica s.v. Axia
  2. ^ Scholia on Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.185; Stephanus of Byzantium, Ethnica s.v. Boudeia
  3. ^ Eustathius on Homer, 1076.26; Scholia on Homer, Iliad 16.572; on Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.185
  4. ^ Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 9.37.1
  5. ^ Homer, Odyssey 3.452

References edit

  • Homer, The Odyssey with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, PH.D. in two volumes. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1919. ISBN 978-0674995611. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
  • Pausanias, Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918. ISBN 0-674-99328-4. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
  • Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
  • Stephanus of Byzantium, Stephani Byzantii Ethnicorum quae supersunt, edited by August Meineike (1790-1870), published 1849. A few entries from this important ancient handbook of place names have been translated by Brady Kiesling. Online version at the Topos Text Project.