Asterius (mythology)
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)In Greek mythology, Asterion /əˈstɪəriən/ (Greek: Ἀστερίων, gen.: Ἀστερίωνος, literally "starry") or Asterius /əˈstɪəriəs/ (Ἀστέριος) may refer to the following figures:
- Asterion, one of the Potamoi.[1]
- Asterius, one of the Giants.[2]
- Asterion, an attendant of the starry-god Astraeus.[3]
- Asterion or Asterius, king of Crete.[4]
- Asterion or Asterius, name of the Minotaur.[5]
- Asterion, son of Zeus and Idaea, a daughter of Minos.[6]
- Asterius, son of Minos and Androgenia, a girl from the Cretan city of Phaistos. He was the commander of Cretans who joined the god Dionysus in his Indian War. Asterius never returned to his homeland but instead settled among the Colchians and named them Asterians. There Asterius fathered Miletus, Caunus, and Byblis.[7]
- Asterius, a king of Anactoria (
- Asterius, according to Hyginus one of the Sons of Aegyptus, who married Cleo, daughter of Danaus.[11]
- Asterius, a prince of
- Asterion or Asterius, an Argonaut from Peirasia in Thessaly. He was the son of Cometes[15] and Antigona,[16] daughter of King Pheres of Pherae.
- Asterius or Asterion, an
Notes
- ^ Pausanias, 2.15.5
- ^ Barber 1991 p. 381
- ^ Nonnus, Dionysiaca 6.66
- ^ Apollodorus, 3.1.2–4.
- ^ Apollodorus, 3.1.4.
- Recognitions 10.21-23
- ^ Nonnus, Dionysiaca 13.223, 13.245 & 13.546 ff.
- ^ Pausanias, 1.35.6.
- ^ Pausanias, 7.2.5.
- ^ Pausanias, 1.35.6.
- Hyginus, Fabulae 170
- ^ Homer, Odyssey 11.284; Scholia ad Odyssey 11.281 citing Pherecydes
- ^ Apollodorus, 1.9.9.
- ^ Apollodorus, 2.7.3.
- ^ Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica 1.20 ff.; Apollodorus, 1.9.16.
- ^ a b Hyginus, Fabulae 14.
- Argonautica Orphica163
- ^ Pausanias, 7.26.12.
- Valerius Flaccus, 1.367
References
- Anonymous. The Orphic Argonautica, translated by Jason Colavito. Copyright 2011. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
- Apollodorus, The Library with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. ISBN 0-674-99135-4. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
- Gaius Julius Hyginus, Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
- Gaius Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica translated by Mozley, J H. Loeb Classical Library Volume 286. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1928. Online version at theio.com.
- Gaius Valerius Flaccus, Argonauticon. Otto Kramer. Leipzig. Teubner. 1913. Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Homer, The Iliad with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, Ph.D. in two volumes. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1924. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Homer, Homeri Opera in five volumes. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1920. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Nonnus of Panopolis, Dionysiaca translated by William Henry Denham Rouse (1863-1950), from the Loeb Classical Library, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1940. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
- Nonnus of Panopolis, Dionysiaca. 3 Vols. W.H.D. Rouse. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1940–1942. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.