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Set of mythological Greek characters
In
Greek mythology , Asterion (
Greek : Ἀστερίων , gen.: Ἀστερίωνος , literally "starry") or Asterius (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 (
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
[15] from
Peirasia in
Thessaly .
[16] He was the son of
Cometes
[17] and
Antigona , daughter of King
Pheres of
Pherae .
[18]
Asterius or Asterion, an
Argonaut from the
Achaean city of
Pellene .
[19] He was the son of
Hyperasius , son of
Pelles , son of
Phorbas .
[20] In two separate accounts, Asterius and his brother
Amphion were called the children of
Hypso
[21] while
Hippasus was said to be their father.
[18]
Notes
^
Pausanias ,
2.15.5
^ Barber 1991 p.
381
^
Nonnus , 6.66
^
Apollodorus ,
3.1.2–4
^ Apollodorus,
3.1.4
^
Pseudo-Clement ,
Recognitions
10.21-23
^ Nonnus, 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 with
Scholia ad,11.281 citing
Pherecydes
^ Apollodorus,
1.9.9
^ Apollodorus,
2.7.3
^
Apollonius Rhodius ,
1.35 ; Apollodorus,
1.9.16
^ Apollonius Rhodius,
1.36-39
^ Apollonius Rhodius,
1.35 ; Apollodorus,
1.9.16
^
a
b Hyginus, Fabulae
14
^
Orphic Argonautica 163
^ Pausanias,
7.26.12
^
Valerius Flaccus , 1.367
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