Alkibie

Alkibie ( ancient Greek Ἀλκιβίη ) is an Amazon of Greek mythology .

She appears only in the Posthomerica of Quintus von Smyrna as an Amazon in the suite of the Amazon queen Penthesilea . In the Trojan War , she fights with the other Amazons on the side of the Trojans, where she is killed by Diomedes .

literature

• Johannes Toepffer : Alkibie . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume I, 2, Stuttgart 1894, Col. 1533.
• Heinrich Wilhelm Stoll : Alkibie . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1,1, Leipzig 1886, column 235 ( digitized version ).

Remarks

1. ^ Quintus of Smyrna 1:45; 1, 260.