Αλφεσιβοια
- A nymph from Asia who was loved by Dionysus. But the god could not succeed in seducing her until one day when he had the idea of changing himself into a tiger. In terror Alphesiboea agreed to allow herself to be seduced by the god in order to cross the river (then known by the name of Sollox) to the banks of which she had fled. By Dionysus she had a son, Medus, who afterwards gave his name to the Medes and called the river on whose banks his mother had been forced to yield to Dionysus the Tigris.
- Alphesiboea was also the name of the daughter of Phegeus, otherwise known as Arsinoe.
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Table of Sources:
- Plutarch, De Fluviss 24 (ed. Bernardakis, Teubner, vol. VII, p. 325).