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 ..