Astypalaia

The title of this article is ambiguous. Further meanings are listed under Astypalaia (disambiguation) .

Astypalaia ( Greek  Ἀστυπάλαια or Ἀστυπαλαία , Latin Astypalaea ) is a figure in Greek mythology .

She is the daughter of Perimede and Phoinix , a son of the Phoenician king Agenor , and is considered the sister of Europa . According to another tradition, she is Europe's niece.

Astypalaia has three sons with the god Poseidon : Eurypylos , who becomes king of the island of Kos , Ankaios , who becomes king of Samos and takes part in the voyage of the Argonauts , and Periklymenos .

The island of Astypalea in the eastern Aegean is named after her.

literature

• Heinrich Wilhelm Stoll : Astypalaia . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1,1, Leipzig 1886, column 663 ( digitized version ).

Web links

• Astypalaea in the Greek Myth Index (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Pausanias : Description of Greece 7, 4, 1.
2. ↑ Homer : Iliad 14,321.
3. ^ Libraries of Apollodorus 3, 1, 1.
4. ^ Libraries of Apollodorus 2, 7, 1.
5. ↑ Apollonios of Rhodes : Argonautika 2, 864-868.
6. ^ Hyginus Mythographus : Fabulae 157.