The daughter of Pleisthenes and Aerope, and sister
of Agamemnon
and Menelaus. She was married to king Strophius
of Crissa, with whom she had a son and a daughter: Pylades and Astydameia.
Pylades grew up with his cousin Orestes, who had
been sent to Crissa by his sister Electra
to avoid the torments of their mother
Clytemnestra
and her lover Aegisthus. Pylades was later to
marry Electra after Agamemnon had been revenged and Orestes acquitted for
killing his mother.
Apart from losing her brother Agamemnon, Anaxibia was the only of Atreus'
children who escaped the curse
of the family.