Asterodeia (wife of Aietes)

Asterodeia ( Greek  Ἀστερόδεια ) is in Greek mythology, a Caucasian Naiad .

With Apollonios of Rhodes she is the wife of Aietes and from him the mother of Absyrtos . In the Scholion on the spot she is referred to as a daughter of Oceanus and Tethys , and Diophantus is named here as another child .

literature

• Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher: Asterodeia 1 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1.1, Leipzig 1886, column 658 ( digitized version ).
• Konrad Wernicke : Asterodeia 1. In: Paulys Realencyclopädie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume II, 2, Stuttgart 1896, Sp. 1787.

Remarks

1. ↑ Apollonios of Rhodes 3, 242.