Daughter of Leucippus, sister of the Leucippids, who were abducted by the Dioscuri, she was the mother by Apollo of the Messenian Asclepius (Hes. fr. 50; Apollod. 3,117f.; Paus. 2,26,7; 4,3,2). In Sparta A. had a shrine (Paus. 3,12,8); on the agora of Messene there was an A. spring (Paus. 4,31,6), in the Messenian Asclepieum there was, amongst other things, a painting of A. (P…
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Graf, Fritz (Columbus, OH),
Harder, Ruth Elisabeth (Zürich),
Ameling, Walter (Jena),
Bieberstein, Klaus (Fribourg),
Jansen-Winkeln, Karl (Berlin) and
Hild, Friedrich (Vienna),
“Arsinoe”, in:
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