Anaxias

Anaxias (Ancient Greek: Ἀναξίας) or Anaxis (Greek: Ἄναξις) was in Greek and Roman mythology a son of Castor and Hilaeira, and brother of Mnasinus, with whom he is usually mentioned. The temple of the Dioscuri at Argos contained also the statues of these two sons of Castor,[1] and on the throne of Amyclae both were represented riding on horseback.[2]

Notes

Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 2.22.6

Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 3.18.7

References

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. Online version
Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Schmitz, Leonhard (1870). "Anaxias". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. 1. p. 164.

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