Asterodia

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

• Asterodia, a Caucasian nymph and one of the Oceanids as the daughter of Oceanus and Tethys, mother of Absyrtus by Aeetes.^[1][2]
• Asterodia, a Phocian princess, daughter of King Deion and Diomede, and sister of Aenetus, Phylacus, Actor and Cephalus.^[3][4] She was also called Asteria,^[5] the one who bore Crisus and Panopeus to Phocus.^[6] These twin brothers did not get along, quarreling while still in their mother's womb.^[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. Apollonius of Rhodes, 3.241–243; for her parents see Conti, p. 478 n. 23; Preston's note to Apollonius, 3.330 "Asterodea" (p. 168); scholia on Apollonius, 3.242 (Parisian, Florentine).
2. Bane, Theresa (2013). Encyclopedia of Fairies in World Folklore and Mythology. McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers. p. 37. ISBN 9780786471119.
3. Hesiod, Ehoiai fr. 10(a) and 58; Apollodorus, 1.9.4; Hyginus, Fabulae 198
4. Hard, pp. 435, 565
5. Smith, "Phocus".
6. Tzetzes ad Lycophron, 939; Scholia ad Homer, Iliad 2.520
7. Hesiod, Ehoiai fr. 58.12–13
8. Smith, Endymion
9. Pausanias, 5.1.4
10. Pherecydes in scholia ad Homer, Odyssey 15.16

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