Asterion (name)
Asterion or Asterios ( Greek ᾿Αστερίων or ᾿Αστέριος; Latin Asterius ) was a male name in ancient times . It originally expressed a relationship between the bearer of the name and a star (image) (astron) .
Name bearer
- Asterios (also Asterion ), son of Tektamos, king of Crete
- Asterios (son of Aegyptus) , one of the Aegyptiads
- Asterios or Asterion , the Minotaur , son of Pasiphaë
- Asterios , nickname of Dionysus as a boy
- Asterios , king of Miletus, see Asterios (son of Anax)
- Asterion , son of Comet, Pyremus or Priscus with Antigone, daughter of Pheres, one of the Argonauts
- Asterion, son of Neleus and Chloris, killed by Heracles
- Asterios of Cappadocia , sophist and theologian of the 4th century
- Asterion , son of an Aeschylus, ancient sculptor
- Asterius of Amaseia († before 431 AD), church writer and bishop of Amaseia
- Flavius Turcius Rufius Apronianus Asterius , Roman politician, consul 494
- Asterius (saint) , martyr of the 2nd / 3rd centuries Century
- Asterion (mythology) , god of a brook in Argolis , father of the wet nurses Euboia , Akraia and Prosymna
- Asterius Urbanus , montanist writer of the 2nd century AD.
literature
- Asterion 5 ff . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume II, 2, Stuttgart 1896, Sp. 1784ff ..