Astyoche (daughter of Laomedon)
Astyoche ( Greek Ἀστυόχη ) is a figure in Greek mythology .
Astyoche was a daughter of King Laomedon of Troy and Strymo , a daughter of the river god Skamandros , or Plakia , daughter of Otreus , or Leukippe ; her brother was Priam . According to the ancient Greek genealogist Akusilaos , she married Telephos , a son of Heracles , and gave birth to him Eurypylos , whom she initially reluctantly wanted to send to the Troops' help during the Trojan War , until - according to a surviving fragment of the Little Iliad - from Priam was bribed with a golden vine and then gave up her resistance. According to another version of the legend, Astyoche was not the mother, but rather the wife of Eurypylos. In any case, Eurypylos fell in the fight against Neoptolemus .
After the fall of Troy, Astyoche and her sisters Aithilla and Medesikaste were captured by the victorious Greeks and brought to Italy with these and other captured Troy women , where they tried to escape their enslavement by setting fire to the Greek fleet. A nearby river is said to have been called Nauaithos (= "Schiffslohe") because of this event .
See also
literature
- Hans von Geisau : Astyoche 4). In: The Little Pauly (KlP). Volume 1, Stuttgart 1964, column 669.
- Heinrich Wilhelm Stoll : Astyoche 4) . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1,1, Leipzig 1886, column 662 ( digitized version ).
Remarks
- ^ Libraries of Apollodorus 3, 12, 3, 8, § 146.
- ↑ Eustathios of Thessalonike , Commentary on Homer's Odyssey 11, 518, p. 1697, 13.
- ↑ Akusilaos, The Fragments of the Greek Historians (FGrH), No. 2, F 40 = Scholien zu Homer, Odyssey 11, 519ff.
- ↑ Scholion zu Iuvenal , Saturae 6, 654, cf. Eustathios of Thessalonica, Commentary on Homer's Odyssey 11, 520, p. 1697, 36.
- ^ Tzetzes , Commentary on Lykophron , Alexandra 921 = Libraries of Apollodor , Epitome 6, 15c; Strabo 6, 1, 12.