'Arisbe' can be:
★ Another name for
Batea, a person in
Greek Mythology
★ An early (pre-
Hecuba) wife of King
Priam of
Troy, also from Greek Mythology. This
Arisbe was a daughter of the seer Merops of
Percote.
★ In
Homer's ''
Iliad'', a city in the
Troad. It is mentioned three times. In Book II, where
Asius is described leading Trojan troops from Arisbe and other
Hellespontine cities; in Book VI, in which an account of the slaying of
Axylus is given, who lived in "well-built Arisbe"; and in Book XXI, in which
Eëtion sends
Lycaon to Arisbe after ransoming him.
★ The rural Pennsylvania house and farm of
Charles Sanders Peirce, where he spent the last years of his life and which he named ''Arisbe'', inspired to do so by the account of
Axylus, who welcomed all passers-by into his house at Arisbe.
★ The species ''
arisbe'' of
owl butterflies.
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