Alphesiboea
- daughter of the Arcadian king Phegeus, and wife of Alcmaeon, who afterwards left her and married Callirrhoë. When her broth ers slew him on this account, she, from anger at the murder, killed them, Prop. 1, 15, 19.
(Ἀλφεσιβοῖα).
1. The mother of Adonis. [Adonis.]
2. A daughter of Phegeus, who married Alcmaeon. [Alcmaeon.]
3. According to Theocritus (3.45) a daughter of Bias, and the wife of Pelias. The latter, however, is usually called Anaxibia.
4. An Indian nymph, who was passionately loved by Dionysus, but could not be induced to yield to his wishes, until the god changed himself into a tiger, and thus compelled her by fear to allow him to carry her across the river Sollax, which from this circumstance received the name of Tigris. (Plut. de Fluv. 24.) [L.S]
(Ἀλφεσίβοια) or Arsinŏé (Ἀρσινόη). Daughter of Phegeus and first wife of Alcmaeon, whom, though unfaithful, she continued to love, and was angry with her brothers for killing him. Her brothers shut her up in a box, and brought her to Agapenor, king of Tegea, pretending that she had killed her husband. Here she came by her end, having compassed her brothers' death by the hand of Alcmaeon 's sons.
- wife of Alcmaeon: Paus. 8.24.8
- mother of Adonis, according to Hesiod: Apollod. 3.14.3