Damastor

In Greek mythology, the name Damastor^{[pronunciation?]} (Ancient Greek: Δαμάστωρ means "tamer") may refer to:

• Damastor, a
  Gigantomachy, he used a rock into which a fellow Giant Pallas had been changed as a throwing weapon.^[1]
• Damastor, a son of Nauplius, father of Peristhenes and through him grandfather of Dictys and Polydectes.^[2]
• Damastor, father of a defender of Troy, Tlepolemus.^[3]
• Damastor, father of Agelaus, one of the Suitors of Penelope.^[4]
• Damastor, another Suitor of Penelope who came from Dulichium along with other 56 wooers.^[5] He, with the other suitors, was shot dead by Odysseus with the help of Eumaeus, Philoetius, and Telemachus.^[6]

The patronymic Damastorides "son of Damastor" is used in reference to Agelaus and Tlepolemus but also to an otherwise unnamed defender of Troy killed by Agamemnon.^[7]

• Damastor, A Dark Fantasy novel by Dimitri Iatrou.

Notes

References

• ISBN 978-0674995796. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Homer, Homeri Opera in five volumes. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1920.
  ISBN 978-0198145318. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library
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• ISBN 978-0674995611. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website
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• Quintus Smyrnaeus, The Fall of Troy translated by Way. A. S. Loeb Classical Library Volume 19. London: William Heinemann, 1913. Online version at theio.com
• Quintus Smyrnaeus, The Fall of Troy. Arthur S. Way. London: William Heinemann; New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. 1913. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.

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