Arisbe
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
*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.
*
Charles S. Peirce's house, which he named Arisbe, inspired to do so by the account of
Axylus, who welcomed all passers-by into his house in Arisbe.
*a
species group of Owl Butterflies