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Alphesiboea, a daughter of King Phegeus of Psophis in Arcadia. She was the sister of Axion and Temenus, and married Alcmaeon who was purified by her father for the murder of his mother Eriphyle. Alphesiboea was deserted by her husband for the love of Callirhoe, daughter of the river-god Achelous. In revenge, her brothers Axion and Temenus at the command of their father treacherously slew their brother-in-law. Phegeus was also said to have murdered Alcmaeon himself and also Alphesiboea's unnamed daughter. Later on, the widowed sister, Alphesiboea killed her own brothers in revenge of her husbands's death. In some versions of this myth, she is called Arsinoe.

Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 8.24.8
Hyginus, Fabulae 245
Hyginus, Fabulae 244
Propertius, Elegies 1.15.23
Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3.7.5

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