Asteria (mythology)

In Greek mythology, Asteria (/əˈstɪəriə/; Ancient Greek: Ἀστερία, "of the stars, starry one") was a name attributed to the following eleven individuals:

Christoph Willibald Gluck gave the name Asteria to one of the characters in his 1765 opera Telemaco, though the name did not appear in Homer's Odyssey on which the opera was based.

Notes

  1. Hesiod, Theogony 404 ff
  2. Nonnus, Dionysiaca 17.282
  3. Nonnus, Dionysiaca 26.351355
  4. Nonnus, Dionysiaca 17.282, 23.236, 26.355, 27.199203, 33.151152.
  5. Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 2.1.5
  6. Suida, Suda Encyclopedia s.v. Alkyonides
  7. Stephanus of Byzantium, Ethnica s.v. Hydissos
  8. Scholia on Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, 1. 139, citing Pherecydes
  9. Tzetzes on Lycophron, 53
  10. Tzetzes on Lycophron, 939
  11. Tzetzes on Lycophron, 450
  12. Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca historica 4.16.3
  13. Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum 4. 8185 (painting on François Vase)

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