Arsinoe (mythology)

Arsinoe (mythology)

In Greek mythology, Arsinoe referred to several different people.

*Nurse of Orestes
*Mother of Asclepius by Apollo. She was the daughter of Leucippus.
*Daughter of Phegeus, king of Psophis; sister of Agenor and Pronous. Wife of Alcmaeon. In some versions of this myth, she is named Alphesiboea.
*One of the Minyades, according to Plutarch


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