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In Greek Mythology, Arsinoe referred to two different people.
- Orestes' nurse
- Arsinoe, daugthter of Leucippus, mother of Asclepius by Apollo
- Arsinoe daughter of Phegeus, wife of Alcmaeon from whom she received the necklace and robe of Harmonia
Pausanias 2.26.7,
The third account is, in my opinion, the farthest from the truth; it makes Asclepius to be the son of Arsinoe, the daughter of Leucippus. For when Apollophanes the Arcadian, came to Delphi and asked the god if Asclepius was the son of Arsinoe and therefore a Messenian, the Pythian priestess gave this response:--
Asclepius, born to bestow great joy upon mortals,
Pledge of the mutual love I enjoyed with Phlegyas' daughter,
Lovely Coronis, who bare thee in rugged land Epidaurus.
...This oracle makes it quite certain that Asclepius was not a son of Arsinoe, and that the story was a fiction invented by Hesiod, or by one of Hesiod's interpolators, just to please the Messenians.
Apollod. 3.7.5
...And having been purified by him he married Arsinoe, daughter of Phegeus, and gave her the necklace and the robe
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