Astydameia (daughter of Amyntor)

Astydameia ( Greek  Ἀστυδάμεια ) or Astydamia is a figure in Greek mythology .

She is the daughter of King Amyntor ; in Diodorus she is referred to differently as the daughter of Ormesius . According to some sources, with Herakles she has the son Tlepolemus (as his mother, however, Astyoche , the daughter of Phylas is usually called). According to another version, she is the mother of Heracles' son Ktesippus .

literature

• Heinrich Wilhelm Stoll : Astydameia 1 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1,1, Leipzig 1886, column 661 ( digitized version ).
• Ulrich Hoefer : Astydameia 1 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume II, 2, Stuttgart 1896, Sp. 1868.

Web links

• Astydameia in the Greek Myth Index (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Diodor : Bibliotheke historike 4, 37
2. ^ Pindar : Olympia 7, 24.
3. ↑ Hans von Geisau : Astyoche 1 . In: The Little Pauly (KlP). Volume 1, Munich 1979, Col. 835.
4. ↑ Libraries of Apollodorus 2, 7, 8.