Asios
Asios ( ancient Greek Ἄσιος , Latin Asius ) was a male given name from West Asia Minor in ancient times .
meaning
The original meaning is unknown. Later the name was understood as "the Asiatic" - someone who comes from the Asiatic country, which corresponds roughly to the later Lydia .
Strabo writes that there is a place in Lydia near the city of Sardis , which the locals called Wiese (Greek λειμών) and Homer Asische Aue , because there was a heroon for Kaystrius and Asius in the vicinity . From this the name Asisches Land is to be derived and this could possibly be the origin for the name Asia . Herodotus notes that the Lydians claimed that the name of Asia was derived from Asies, the son of Kotys and grandson of Manes.
Well-known namesake
- Asies, the son of Kotys and grandson of Manes
- Asios , son of Hyrtakos, ruler of Arisbe
- Asios son of Dymas, brother of Hecabe
- Asios, son of Imbrasus, warrior of Aeneas
- Asios of Samos , son of Amphiptolemus, a poet
- Asios, a laconic poet, see Areus
- Nickname of Zeus Asios from the city of Asos or Oasos in Crete