Asteria (daughter of Danaos)
Asteria ( ancient Greek Ἀστερία Astería ) is in Greek mythology a daughter of Danaos , the king of Libya . She is therefore one of the Danaids . Her mother was either Atlanteie or Phoibe , both hamadryads , with whom Danaos had nine other daughters.
At the mass wedding of the 50 daughters of Danaos with the 50 sons of Aegyptus , at which lot decided on the pairing, their Chaitos , the son of an Arab mother, was assigned as husband. Like all of her sisters with the exception of the Hypermestra , she killed her husband on their wedding night.
literature
- Adolf Schirmer : Asteria 3 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1,1, Leipzig 1886, column 656 ( digitized version ).
- Konrad Wernicke : Asteria 7 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume II, 2, Stuttgart 1896, Sp. 1782.
Remarks
- ↑ Libraries of Apollodor 2,1,5.