Axiothea

[Prometheus.]

(Ἀξιοθέα).

1. Wife of Nicocles, king of Paphos. When Nicocles, by the command of Ptolemy Lagi, killed himself, Axiothea slew her daughters with her own hand, to prevent their falling into the hands of their enemies, and then, together with her sisters-in-law, killed herself. (Diod. 20.21; Polyaen. Strateg. 8.48.)

2. A native of Phlius, who came to Athens, and putting on male attire, was for some time a hearer of Plato, and afterwards of Speusippus. (D. L. 3.46, 4.2; Clem. Alex. Stromat. iv. p. 523; Themistius, Orat. iv.) [C.P.M]