Alexida

In Greek mythology, Alexida (Ancient Greek: Ἀλεξίδη) was a daughter of Amphiaraus, from whom certain divinities called Elasii (in Greek, Elasioi or Ἐλάσιοι, i. e. the averters of epileptic fits) were believed to be descended.[1][2]

Notes

Plutarch, Quaestiones Graecae 23
Schmitz, Leonhard (1867). "Alexicles". In William Smith (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. 1. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. p. 128.

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References

Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus, Moralia with an English Translation by Frank Cole Babbitt. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1936. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.

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[1] Plutarch, Quaestiones Graecae 23

[DGRBM-2] Schmitz, Leonhard (1867). "Alexicles". In William Smith (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. 1. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. p. 128.