Astypalaea
In
Europa. In some accounts, her mother was called Telephe and her siblings were Phoenice, Peirus and again Europe.[2] Astypale was a lover of Poseidon who seduced her, and had two sons by him: Ancaeus, King of Samos, and Eurypylos, King of Kos.[3][4]
The island of Astypalaia was believed to have been named after her.[5]
Notes
- ^ Hyginus, Fabulae 157
- ^ Scholia on Euripides, Phoenissae 5
- ^ Pausanias, 7.4.1
- ^ Apollodorus, 2.7.1
- ^ Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Astypalaia
References
- 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.
- Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Stephanus of Byzantium, Stephani Byzantii Ethnicorum quae supersunt, edited by August Meineike (1790-1870), published 1849. A few entries from this important ancient handbook of place names have been translated by Brady Kiesling. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
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