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Anaxias

or ANAXIS (Ἀναξίας or Ἄναξις), a son of Castor and Elaeira or Hilaeira, and brother of Mnasinus, with whom he is usually mentioned. The temple of the Diosctri at Argos contained also the statues of these two sons of Castor (Paus. 2.22.6), and on the throne of Amyclae both were represented riding on horseback. (3.18.7.)

From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.