Asterodia

In Greek mythology, the name Asterodia, Asterodeia, or Asterodea (/æstəˈrɒdiə/; Ancient Greek: Ἀστεροδεία, Ἀστεροδία) refers to:

• Asterodia, a Phocian princess, daughter of King Deion and Diomede, and sister of Aenetus, Phylacus, Nisus, Actor and Cephalus.[1][2][3] She is probably the same as the Asterodia (Asteria)[4] who bore Crisus and Panopeus to Phocus.[5][6]
• Asterodia, a Caucasian nymph, daughter of Oceanus and Tethys, mother of Absyrtus by Aeetes.[7]
• Asterodia, one of the possible wives of Endymion.[8][9]
• Asterodia, daughter of Eurypylus and one of the possible wives of Icarius.[10]

Notes

1. Hard, pp. 435, 565
2. Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 1.9.4
3. Hesiod, Ehoiai fr. 58
4. Smith, "Phocus".
5. Tzetzes on Lycophron, 939
6. Scholia on Iliad, 2.520
7. Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica 3.241–243; for her parents see Conti, p. 478 n. 23; Preston's note to Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica 3.330 "Asterodea" (p. 168); scholia on Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica 3.242 (Parisian, Florentine).
8. Smith, Endymion
9. Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 5.1.4
10. Pherecydes in scholia on Homer, Odyssey, 15.16

References

• Apollonius of Rhodes, Apollonius Rhodius: the Argonautica, translated by Robert Cooper Seaton, W. Heinemann, 1912. Internet Archive.
• Apollonius of Rhodes, The Argonautics of Apollonius Rhodius, Translated; with Notes and Observations, Critical, Historical, and Explanatory, by W. Preston, ESQ. M. R. I. A. Volume 2, Press of C. Whittingham, 1822. Internet Archive
• Brunck, Richard François Philippe, Apollonii Rhodii Argonautica Volume 2: Scholia vetera in Apollonium Rhodium, second edition by G. H. Schäfer, Fleischer, 1813. Internet Archive
• Conti, Natale, John Mulryan, Steven Brown, Natale Conti's Mythologiae, ACMRS, 2006.
• Hard, Robin, The Routledge Handbook of Greek Mythology: Based on H.J. Rose's "Handbook of Greek Mythology", Psychology Press, 2004, ISBN 9780415186360.
• Hesiod, Catalogue of Women from Homeric Hymns, Epic Cycle, Homerica translated by Evelyn-White, H G. Loeb Classical Library Volume 57. London: William Heinemann, 1914. Online version at theio.com
• 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. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
• Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Pseudo-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. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
• Smith, William; Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London (1873).