Asterius, son of Minos and Androgenia, a girl from the Cretan city of Phaestus. 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 (Miletus) and son of Anax, son of Gaia.[8] He was a slain by the hero Miletus who named after himself the newly conquered lands.[9]According to Pausanias, an island named after him was thought to be a burial of him that existed near the city of Milesians.[10]
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For other uses see Asterion disambiguation For other uses see Asterius For the theologian see Asterius the Sophist In Greek mythology Asterion e ˈ s t ɪer i e n Greek Ἀsteriwn gen Ἀsteriwnos literally starry or Asterius e ˈ s t ɪer i e s Ἀsterios 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 Phaestus 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 Miletus and son of Anax son of Gaia 8 He was a slain by the hero Miletus who named after himself the newly conquered lands 9 According to Pausanias an island named after him was thought to be a burial of him that existed near the city of Milesians 10 Asterius according to Hyginus one of the Sons of Aegyptus who married Cleo daughter of Danaus 11 Asterius a prince of Pylos and son of King Neleus by Chloris daughter of King Amphion of Orchomenus 12 He was the brother to Pero Asterius Pylaon Deimachus Eurybius Epilaus Evagoras Phrasius Eurymenes Alastor Nestor and Periclymenus 13 Asterius was slain along with his brothers except Nestor by Heracles when the hero took revenge on Neleus when the latter refused to cleanse Heracles of his blood debt 14 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 Argonaut from the Achaean city of Pellene 17 He was the son of Hyperasius son of Pelles son of Phorbas 18 In two separate accounts Asterius and his brother Amphion were called the children of Hypso 19 while Hippasus was said to be their father 20 Notes Edit Pausanias 2 15 5 Barber 1991 p 381 Nonnus Dionysiaca 6 66 Apollodorus 3 1 2 4 Apollodorus 3 1 4 Pseudo Clement Recognitions 10 21 23 Nonnus Dionysiaca 13 223 13 245 amp 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 Hyginus Fabulae 14 Argonautica Orphica 163 Pausanias 7 26 12 Valerius Flaccus 1 367 Hyginus Fabulae 14References EditAnonymous 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 Description of Greece with an English Translation by W H S Jones Litt D and H A Ormerod M A in 4 Volumes Cambridge MA Harvard University Press London William Heinemann Ltd 1918 ISBN 0 674 99328 4 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library Pausanias Graeciae Descriptio 3 vols Leipzig Teubner 1903 Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library This article includes a list of Greek mythological figures with the same or similar names If an internal link for a specific Greek mythology article referred you to this page you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended Greek mythology article if one exists Myths portal Ancient Greece portal Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Asterius mythology amp oldid 1129782272, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
