Astakos (Thebans)

Astakos ( Greek  Ἄστακος ) is a Theban warrior in Greek mythology , whose four sons Ismaros , Leades , Melanippos and Amphidikos distinguished themselves as brave defenders of the city against the seven against Thebes . Melanippus killed Mekisteus and mortally wounded Tydeus , but was then slain by the latter.

After Memnon of Herakleia , Astakos is one of the divisions and eponymous heroes of the city of Astakos in Bithynia, which was named after him because of an oracle. With Stephanos of Byzantium , the eponymous founder of the city is a son of Zeus and the nymph Olbia .

literature

• Heinrich Wilhelm Stoll : Astakos 1–2 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1,1, Leipzig 1886, column 645 ( digitized version ).
• Erich Bethe : Astakos 3–4. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume II, 2, Stuttgart 1896, Sp. 1775.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Libraries of Apollodorus 3, 6, 8.
2. ↑ Memnon 12