Comet (father of asterion)

Comets ( ancient Greek Κομ Komτης ) was according to Apollonios of Rhodes in Greek mythology the father of the Argonaut Asterion . According to Hyginus Mythographus , Asterion came from the union of Antigone , the daughter of the king Pheres of Iolkos in Thessaly , with Pyremus .

literature

Burkhard Scherer : Myth, Catalog and Prophecy. Studies on the Argonautics of Apollonios Rhodios . Franz Steiner Verlag, Wiesbaden 2006, ISBN 3-515-08808-3 , pp. 46-50 and 86 (on the various bearers of the name Asterion / Asterios and their fathers in the Argonautika).
Heinrich Wilhelm Stoll : Comet 1 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 2.1, Leipzig 1894, column 1280 ( digitized version ).