; Eu-
celebration
of a festival of Artemis.
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quently returned to the Christian faith, and joined | mis, under which she had a temple near Pyrrhich 18
the Arian party, but on account of his apostasy in Laconin, because she was believed to have stopped
was excluded from the dignity of bishop to which there the progress of the Amazons. (Paus. iii. 25.
he aspired. He was the author of several theolo- $ 2. )
(L. S. ]
gical works. There was also an Asterius of Scy- ASTY'AGES ('Aotváyns), king of Media,
thopolis, whom St. Jerome (Epist. 83, ad Magnum (called by Ctesias 'Aotviyas, and by Diodorus
Orat. ) mentions as one of the most celebrated eccle l'Actádas), was the son and successor of Cyaxares.
siastical writers.
[C. P. M. ) The accounts of this king given by Herodotus,
ASTERIUS, TURCIUS RUFUS APRONI. Ctesias, and Xenophon, differ in several important
A'NUS, was consul A. D. 494, devoted himself to particulars. We learn from Herodotus (i. 74), that
literary pursuits, and emended a MS. of Sedulius, in the compact made between Cyaxares and Aly-
and one of Virgil, on which he wrote an epigram. attes in B. c. 610, it was agreed that Astyages
(Anth. Lat. No. 281, ed. Meyer. ) [C. P. M. ] should marry Aryenis, the daughter of Alyattes.
ASTERODIA. (ENDYMION. )
According to the chronology of Herodotus, he suc-
ASTEROPAEUS ('Aotepowałos), a son of Pe ceeded his father in B. C. 595, and reigned 35
legon, and grandson of the river-god Axius, was years. (i. 130. ) His government was harsh. (i.
the commander of the Paeonians in the Trojan | 123. ) Alarmed by a dream, he gave his daughter
war, and an ally of the Trojans. He was the Mandane in marriage to Cambyses, a Persian of
tallest among all the inen, and fought with Achilles, good family. (i. 107. ) Another dream induced
whom he at first wounded, but was afterwards him to send Harpagus to destroy the offspring of
killed by him. (Hom. Il. xxi. 139, &c. ; Philostr. this marriage. The child, the future conqueror of
Heroic. xix. 7. )
(L. S. ] the Medes, was given to a herdsman to expose,
ASTE’ROPE ('Aotepóarn), two mythical per- but he brought it up as his own. Years after-
sonages : see Acragas and A ESACUS. (L. S. ) wards, circumstances occurred which brought the
ASTEROPEIA ('AoTepóteia), two mythical young Cyrus under the notice of Astyages, who,
personages, one a daughter of Pelias, who in con- on inquiry, discovered his parentage. He inflicted
junction with her sisters murdered her father a cruel punishment on Harpagus, who waited his
(Paus, viii. 11. § 2); and the second a daughter of time for revenge. When Cyrus had grown up to
Deion and Diomede. (Apollod. i. 9. $ 4. ) [L. S. ] man's estate, Harpagus induced him to instigate
ASTRA'BACUS ('Aotpábakos), a son of Irbus the Persians to revolt, and, having been appointed
and brother of Alopecus, was a Laconian hero of general of the Median forces, he deserted with the
the royal house of Agis. He and his brother found greater part of them to Cyrus. Astyages was
the statue of Artemis Orthia in a bush, and be taken prisoner, and Cyrus mounted the throne.
came mad at the sight of it. He is said to have He treated the captive monarch with mildness,
been the father of Damaratus by the wife of Aris- but kept him in confinement till his death.
ton. He had a sanctuary at Sparta, and was Ctesias agrees with Herodotus in making Asty-
worshipped there as a hero. (Herod. vi. 69; Paus. ages the last king of the Medes, but says, that
iii. 16. & 5, &c. )
(LS. )
Cyrus was in no way related to him till he married
ASTRAEA ('Aotpaia), a daughter of Zeus and his daughter Amytis. When Astyages was as
Themis, or according to others, of Astraeus by Eos. tacked by Cyrus, he fled to Ecbatana, and was
During the golden age, this star-bright maiden concealed in the palace by Amytis and her husband
lived on earth and among men, whom she blessed; Spitamas, but discovered himself to his pursuers,
but when that age had passed away, Astraea, who to prerent his daughter and her husband and chil-
tarried longest among men, withdrew, and was dren from being put to the torture to induce them to
placed among the stars. (Hygin. Poet. Astr. ii. 25; reveal where he was hidden. He was loaded with
Eratost. Catast. 9; Ov. Met. i. 149. ) (L. S. ] chains by Oebaras, but soon afterwards was liberated
ASTRAEUS ('Aotpalos), a Titan and son of | by Cyrus, who treated him with great respect, and
Crius and Eurybia. By Eos he became the father made him governor of the Barcanii
, a Parthian
of the winds Zephyrus, Boreas, and Notus, Eos- people on the borders of Hyrcania. Spitamas
phorus (the morning star), and all the stars of was subsequently put to death by the orders of
heaven. (Hesiod. Theog. 376, &c. ) Ovid (Met. Cyrus, who married Amytis. Some time after,
xiv. 545) calls the winds fratres Astraci, which Amytis and Cyrus being desirous of seeing Asty-
does not mean that they were brothers of Astraeus, ages, a eunuch named Perisaces was sent to escort
but brothers through Astraeus, their common fa- him from his satrapy, but, at the instigation of
ther.
[L. S. ] Debaras, left him to perish in a desert region.
ASTRAMPSY'CHUS, a name bome by some The crime was revealed by means of a dream, and
of the ancient Persian Magians. (Diog. Laërt. Amytis took a cruel revenge on Petisaces. The
prooem. 2; Suidas, s. v. Máyou. ) There is still body of Astyages was found, and buried with all
extant under this name a Greek poem, consisting due honours. We are told that, in the course of
of 101 iambic verses, on the interpretation of his reign, Astrages had waged war with the Bac-
dreams ('OVELPOKPITIKOV), printed in Rigault's trians with doubtful success. (Ctes. ap. Phot. Cod.
edition of Artemidorus, in the collections of Obso- 72. p. 36, ed. Bekker. )
poeus and Servais Galle, and in J. C. Bulenger, Xenophon, like Herodotus, makes Cyrus the
de Ration. Divinat. v. 5. The poem is a compara- grandson of Astyages, but says, that Astyages was
tirely modern composition (not earlier than the succeeded by bis son Cyaxares 11. , on whose death
fourth century after Christ), and the name of the Cyrus succeeded to the vacant throne. (Cyrop. i.
author is perhaps an assumed one. Suidas (s. r. ) 5. § 2. ) This account seems to tally better with
also ascribes to the same author a treatise on the the notices contained in the book of Daniel. (v. 31,
discases of asses, and their cure. (Fabric. Bill. vi. 1, ix. l. ). Dareius the Mede, mentioned there
Gracc. iv. p. 152, v. p. 265, xi. p. 583. ) [C. P. M. ] and by Josephus (x. 11. $ 4), is apparently the saine
ASTRATEIA ('Aotpateia), a surname of Arte- with Cyaxares II. (Compare the account in the
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ful.
Cyropaedeia of the joint expedition of Cyaxares war with Crete, we find him appointed admiral,
and Cyrus against the Assyrians. ) In that case, and again sent as ambassador to Rome. (Polyb
Ahasuerus, the father of Dareius, will be identical xxxiii. 14. )
(C. P. M. )
with Astvages. The existence of Cyaxares II. ASTY'NOME ('Aotuvóun), the daughter of
scems also to be recognized by Aeschylus, Pers. Chryses (whence she is also called Chryseis), a
766. But the question is by no means free from priest of Apollo. She was taken prisoner by
difficulty.
[C. P. M. ) Achilles in the Hypoplacian Thebe or in Lyrpes-
ASTY'AGES, a grammarian, the author of a sus, whither she had been sent by her father for
commentary on Callimachus, and some other trea- protection, or, according to others, to attend the
tises on grammatical subjects. (Suidas, s. v.
; Eu- celebration of a festival of Artemis. In the dis-
docia, p. 64. )
(C. P. M. ) tribution of the booty she was given to Agamem-
ASTYANASSA ('Aotvávaora), said to have non, who, however, was obliged to restore her to
been a daughter of Musaeus, and a slave of Helen, her father, to soothe the anger of Apollo. (Hom.
and to have composed poems on immodest subjects. 11. i. 378; Eustath. ad Hom. pp. 77, 118; Dictys
(Suidas, s. v. ; Photius, Bill. p. 142, ed. Bekk. ) Cret. ii. 17. ) There are two more mythical per-
Her personal existence, however, is very doubt- sonages of this name, one a daughter of Niobe, and
(C. P. M. ] the other a daughter of Talaus and mother of
ASTY'ANAX ('Aotvávat), the son of Hector Capaneus. (Hvgin. Fab. 70. ) (L. S. )
and Andromache; his more common name was ASTY'NOMUS ('Artúvomos), a Greek writer
Scamandrius. After the taking of Troy the Greeks upon Cyprus. (Plin. H. N. v. 35; Steph. Byz.
hurled him down from the walls of the city to s. v. Kúpos. )
prevent the fulfilment of a decree of fate, according ASTY'NOUS ('Aotúvoos), a son of Protiaon, a
to which he was to restore the kingdom of Troy. Trojan, who was slain by Neoptolemus. (Hom. I.
(Hom. Il. vi. 400, &c. ; Ov. Met. xiii. 415; Hygin. xv. 455 ; Paus. x. 26. & 1. ) A second Astynous
Fab. 109. ) A different mythical person of the occurs in Apollodorus. (iii. 14. § 3. ) (L. S. )
name occurs in Apollodorus. (ii. 7. 8 8. ) (L. S. ) ASTY'OCHE or ASTYOCHEIA ('AoTvóyn
ASTY'DAMAS ('Agtudánas). 1. A tragic or 'AoTvó Xera). 1. A daughter of Actor, by whom
poet, the son of Morsimus and a sister of the poet Ares begot two sons, Ascalaphus and lalmenus.
Aeschylus, was the pupil of Isocrates, and accord- (Hom. I. ii. 512, &c. ; Paus. ix. 37. $ 3. )
ing to Suidas (s. v. 'AGTVð. ) wrote 240 tragedies 2. A daughter of Phylas, king of Ephyra, by
and gained the prize fifteen times. His first whom Heracles, after the conquest of Ephyra, begot
tragedy was brought upon the stage in Ol. 95. 2. Tlepolemus. (Apollod. ii. 7. SS 6, 8; Hom. Il.
(Diod. xiv. p. 676. ) He was the author of an ii. 658, &c. ; Schol. ad Pind. Ol. vii. 24 ; Asti-
epigram in the Greek Anthology (Anal. iii
. 329), DAMEIA. )
wbich
gave rise to the proverb Σαυτήν επαινείς 3. A daughter of Laomedon by Strymo, Placia,
üotep 'Agtvôduas hoté. (Suidas, s. v. Savrtivor Leucippe. (Apollod. iii. 12. $ 3. ) According
K. 7. 1. ; Diog. Laërt. ii. 43. )
to other traditions in Eustathius (ad Hom. p. 1697)
2. A tragic poet, the son of the former. The and Dictys (ii. 2), she was a daughter of Priam,
names of some of his tragedies are mentioned by and married Telephus, by whom she became the
Suidas (s. v. ).
(C. P. M. ] mother of Eurypylus. Three other mythical per-
ASTYDÁMEIA ('Aotudáuera), a daughter of sonages of this name occur in Apollod. iii. 12. $ 2,
Amyntor, king of the Dolopians in Thessaly, by u. 5. $ 6 ; Hygin. Fab. 117.
(L. S. ]
Cleobule. She became by Heracles the mother of ASTY'OCHUS ('Aotúoxos), succeeded Melan-
Tlepolemus. (Pind. Ol. vii. 24, with the Schol. ) cridas as Lacedaemonian high admiral, in the sum-
Other accounts differ from Pindar, for Hyginus mer of 412, B. C. , the year after the Syracusan
(Fab. 162) calls the mother of Tlepolemus As- defeat, and arrived with four ships at Chios, late
tyoche, and Apollodorus (ii. 7. $ 8) calls the son in the summer. (Thuc. viii. 20, 23. ) Lesbos
of Astydameia Ctesippus. (Comp. Muncker, ad was now the seat of the contest : and his arrival
Hygin. l. c. ) The Astydameia mentioned under was followed by the recovery to the Athenians of
ACAstus and ANTIGONE, No. 2, is a different the whole island. (Ib. 23. ) Astyochus was
personage.
(L. S. ] eager for a second attempt; but compelled, by the
A'STYLUS, a seer among the centaurs, who is refusal of the Chians and their Spartan captain,
mentioned by Ovid (Met. xii. 308) as dissuading Pedaritus, to forego it, he proceeded, with many
the centaurs from fighting against the Lapithae. threats of revenge, to take the general command at
But the name in Ovid seems to be a mistake either Miletus. (31—33. ) Here he renewed the Persian
of the poet himself or of the transcribers for Asbolus. treaty, and remained, notwithstanding the entrea-
(Hes. Scut. Herc. 185; ASBOLUS. ) [L. S. ] ties of Chios, then hard pressed by the Athenians,
ASTYME'DES ('Aotuunāns), a Rhodian of wholly inactive. He was at last starting to re-
distinction. On the breaking out of the war believe it, when he was called off, about mid-winter,
tween the Romans and Perseus (B. c. 171), he to join a fleet from home, bringing, in consequence
advised his countrymen to side with the former. of complaints from Pedaritus, commissioners to ex-
(Polyb. xxvii. 6. $ 3. ) After the war, when the amine his proceedings.
ASTRATEIA.
389
ASTYAGES.
quently returned to the Christian faith, and joined | mis, under which she had a temple near Pyrrhich 18
the Arian party, but on account of his apostasy in Laconin, because she was believed to have stopped
was excluded from the dignity of bishop to which there the progress of the Amazons. (Paus. iii. 25.
he aspired. He was the author of several theolo- $ 2. )
(L. S. ]
gical works. There was also an Asterius of Scy- ASTY'AGES ('Aotváyns), king of Media,
thopolis, whom St. Jerome (Epist. 83, ad Magnum (called by Ctesias 'Aotviyas, and by Diodorus
Orat. ) mentions as one of the most celebrated eccle l'Actádas), was the son and successor of Cyaxares.
siastical writers.
[C. P. M. ) The accounts of this king given by Herodotus,
ASTERIUS, TURCIUS RUFUS APRONI. Ctesias, and Xenophon, differ in several important
A'NUS, was consul A. D. 494, devoted himself to particulars. We learn from Herodotus (i. 74), that
literary pursuits, and emended a MS. of Sedulius, in the compact made between Cyaxares and Aly-
and one of Virgil, on which he wrote an epigram. attes in B. c. 610, it was agreed that Astyages
(Anth. Lat. No. 281, ed. Meyer. ) [C. P. M. ] should marry Aryenis, the daughter of Alyattes.
ASTERODIA. (ENDYMION. )
According to the chronology of Herodotus, he suc-
ASTEROPAEUS ('Aotepowałos), a son of Pe ceeded his father in B. C. 595, and reigned 35
legon, and grandson of the river-god Axius, was years. (i. 130. ) His government was harsh. (i.
the commander of the Paeonians in the Trojan | 123. ) Alarmed by a dream, he gave his daughter
war, and an ally of the Trojans. He was the Mandane in marriage to Cambyses, a Persian of
tallest among all the inen, and fought with Achilles, good family. (i. 107. ) Another dream induced
whom he at first wounded, but was afterwards him to send Harpagus to destroy the offspring of
killed by him. (Hom. Il. xxi. 139, &c. ; Philostr. this marriage. The child, the future conqueror of
Heroic. xix. 7. )
(L. S. ] the Medes, was given to a herdsman to expose,
ASTE’ROPE ('Aotepóarn), two mythical per- but he brought it up as his own. Years after-
sonages : see Acragas and A ESACUS. (L. S. ) wards, circumstances occurred which brought the
ASTEROPEIA ('AoTepóteia), two mythical young Cyrus under the notice of Astyages, who,
personages, one a daughter of Pelias, who in con- on inquiry, discovered his parentage. He inflicted
junction with her sisters murdered her father a cruel punishment on Harpagus, who waited his
(Paus, viii. 11. § 2); and the second a daughter of time for revenge. When Cyrus had grown up to
Deion and Diomede. (Apollod. i. 9. $ 4. ) [L. S. ] man's estate, Harpagus induced him to instigate
ASTRA'BACUS ('Aotpábakos), a son of Irbus the Persians to revolt, and, having been appointed
and brother of Alopecus, was a Laconian hero of general of the Median forces, he deserted with the
the royal house of Agis. He and his brother found greater part of them to Cyrus. Astyages was
the statue of Artemis Orthia in a bush, and be taken prisoner, and Cyrus mounted the throne.
came mad at the sight of it. He is said to have He treated the captive monarch with mildness,
been the father of Damaratus by the wife of Aris- but kept him in confinement till his death.
ton. He had a sanctuary at Sparta, and was Ctesias agrees with Herodotus in making Asty-
worshipped there as a hero. (Herod. vi. 69; Paus. ages the last king of the Medes, but says, that
iii. 16. & 5, &c. )
(LS. )
Cyrus was in no way related to him till he married
ASTRAEA ('Aotpaia), a daughter of Zeus and his daughter Amytis. When Astyages was as
Themis, or according to others, of Astraeus by Eos. tacked by Cyrus, he fled to Ecbatana, and was
During the golden age, this star-bright maiden concealed in the palace by Amytis and her husband
lived on earth and among men, whom she blessed; Spitamas, but discovered himself to his pursuers,
but when that age had passed away, Astraea, who to prerent his daughter and her husband and chil-
tarried longest among men, withdrew, and was dren from being put to the torture to induce them to
placed among the stars. (Hygin. Poet. Astr. ii. 25; reveal where he was hidden. He was loaded with
Eratost. Catast. 9; Ov. Met. i. 149. ) (L. S. ] chains by Oebaras, but soon afterwards was liberated
ASTRAEUS ('Aotpalos), a Titan and son of | by Cyrus, who treated him with great respect, and
Crius and Eurybia. By Eos he became the father made him governor of the Barcanii
, a Parthian
of the winds Zephyrus, Boreas, and Notus, Eos- people on the borders of Hyrcania. Spitamas
phorus (the morning star), and all the stars of was subsequently put to death by the orders of
heaven. (Hesiod. Theog. 376, &c. ) Ovid (Met. Cyrus, who married Amytis. Some time after,
xiv. 545) calls the winds fratres Astraci, which Amytis and Cyrus being desirous of seeing Asty-
does not mean that they were brothers of Astraeus, ages, a eunuch named Perisaces was sent to escort
but brothers through Astraeus, their common fa- him from his satrapy, but, at the instigation of
ther.
[L. S. ] Debaras, left him to perish in a desert region.
ASTRAMPSY'CHUS, a name bome by some The crime was revealed by means of a dream, and
of the ancient Persian Magians. (Diog. Laërt. Amytis took a cruel revenge on Petisaces. The
prooem. 2; Suidas, s. v. Máyou. ) There is still body of Astyages was found, and buried with all
extant under this name a Greek poem, consisting due honours. We are told that, in the course of
of 101 iambic verses, on the interpretation of his reign, Astrages had waged war with the Bac-
dreams ('OVELPOKPITIKOV), printed in Rigault's trians with doubtful success. (Ctes. ap. Phot. Cod.
edition of Artemidorus, in the collections of Obso- 72. p. 36, ed. Bekker. )
poeus and Servais Galle, and in J. C. Bulenger, Xenophon, like Herodotus, makes Cyrus the
de Ration. Divinat. v. 5. The poem is a compara- grandson of Astyages, but says, that Astyages was
tirely modern composition (not earlier than the succeeded by bis son Cyaxares 11. , on whose death
fourth century after Christ), and the name of the Cyrus succeeded to the vacant throne. (Cyrop. i.
author is perhaps an assumed one. Suidas (s. r. ) 5. § 2. ) This account seems to tally better with
also ascribes to the same author a treatise on the the notices contained in the book of Daniel. (v. 31,
discases of asses, and their cure. (Fabric. Bill. vi. 1, ix. l. ). Dareius the Mede, mentioned there
Gracc. iv. p. 152, v. p. 265, xi. p. 583. ) [C. P. M. ] and by Josephus (x. 11. $ 4), is apparently the saine
ASTRATEIA ('Aotpateia), a surname of Arte- with Cyaxares II. (Compare the account in the
a
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ASTYMEDES.
ASTYOCHUS.
ful.
Cyropaedeia of the joint expedition of Cyaxares war with Crete, we find him appointed admiral,
and Cyrus against the Assyrians. ) In that case, and again sent as ambassador to Rome. (Polyb
Ahasuerus, the father of Dareius, will be identical xxxiii. 14. )
(C. P. M. )
with Astvages. The existence of Cyaxares II. ASTY'NOME ('Aotuvóun), the daughter of
scems also to be recognized by Aeschylus, Pers. Chryses (whence she is also called Chryseis), a
766. But the question is by no means free from priest of Apollo. She was taken prisoner by
difficulty.
[C. P. M. ) Achilles in the Hypoplacian Thebe or in Lyrpes-
ASTY'AGES, a grammarian, the author of a sus, whither she had been sent by her father for
commentary on Callimachus, and some other trea- protection, or, according to others, to attend the
tises on grammatical subjects. (Suidas, s. v.
; Eu- celebration of a festival of Artemis. In the dis-
docia, p. 64. )
(C. P. M. ) tribution of the booty she was given to Agamem-
ASTYANASSA ('Aotvávaora), said to have non, who, however, was obliged to restore her to
been a daughter of Musaeus, and a slave of Helen, her father, to soothe the anger of Apollo. (Hom.
and to have composed poems on immodest subjects. 11. i. 378; Eustath. ad Hom. pp. 77, 118; Dictys
(Suidas, s. v. ; Photius, Bill. p. 142, ed. Bekk. ) Cret. ii. 17. ) There are two more mythical per-
Her personal existence, however, is very doubt- sonages of this name, one a daughter of Niobe, and
(C. P. M. ] the other a daughter of Talaus and mother of
ASTY'ANAX ('Aotvávat), the son of Hector Capaneus. (Hvgin. Fab. 70. ) (L. S. )
and Andromache; his more common name was ASTY'NOMUS ('Artúvomos), a Greek writer
Scamandrius. After the taking of Troy the Greeks upon Cyprus. (Plin. H. N. v. 35; Steph. Byz.
hurled him down from the walls of the city to s. v. Kúpos. )
prevent the fulfilment of a decree of fate, according ASTY'NOUS ('Aotúvoos), a son of Protiaon, a
to which he was to restore the kingdom of Troy. Trojan, who was slain by Neoptolemus. (Hom. I.
(Hom. Il. vi. 400, &c. ; Ov. Met. xiii. 415; Hygin. xv. 455 ; Paus. x. 26. & 1. ) A second Astynous
Fab. 109. ) A different mythical person of the occurs in Apollodorus. (iii. 14. § 3. ) (L. S. )
name occurs in Apollodorus. (ii. 7. 8 8. ) (L. S. ) ASTY'OCHE or ASTYOCHEIA ('AoTvóyn
ASTY'DAMAS ('Agtudánas). 1. A tragic or 'AoTvó Xera). 1. A daughter of Actor, by whom
poet, the son of Morsimus and a sister of the poet Ares begot two sons, Ascalaphus and lalmenus.
Aeschylus, was the pupil of Isocrates, and accord- (Hom. I. ii. 512, &c. ; Paus. ix. 37. $ 3. )
ing to Suidas (s. v. 'AGTVð. ) wrote 240 tragedies 2. A daughter of Phylas, king of Ephyra, by
and gained the prize fifteen times. His first whom Heracles, after the conquest of Ephyra, begot
tragedy was brought upon the stage in Ol. 95. 2. Tlepolemus. (Apollod. ii. 7. SS 6, 8; Hom. Il.
(Diod. xiv. p. 676. ) He was the author of an ii. 658, &c. ; Schol. ad Pind. Ol. vii. 24 ; Asti-
epigram in the Greek Anthology (Anal. iii
. 329), DAMEIA. )
wbich
gave rise to the proverb Σαυτήν επαινείς 3. A daughter of Laomedon by Strymo, Placia,
üotep 'Agtvôduas hoté. (Suidas, s. v. Savrtivor Leucippe. (Apollod. iii. 12. $ 3. ) According
K. 7. 1. ; Diog. Laërt. ii. 43. )
to other traditions in Eustathius (ad Hom. p. 1697)
2. A tragic poet, the son of the former. The and Dictys (ii. 2), she was a daughter of Priam,
names of some of his tragedies are mentioned by and married Telephus, by whom she became the
Suidas (s. v. ).
(C. P. M. ] mother of Eurypylus. Three other mythical per-
ASTYDÁMEIA ('Aotudáuera), a daughter of sonages of this name occur in Apollod. iii. 12. $ 2,
Amyntor, king of the Dolopians in Thessaly, by u. 5. $ 6 ; Hygin. Fab. 117.
(L. S. ]
Cleobule. She became by Heracles the mother of ASTY'OCHUS ('Aotúoxos), succeeded Melan-
Tlepolemus. (Pind. Ol. vii. 24, with the Schol. ) cridas as Lacedaemonian high admiral, in the sum-
Other accounts differ from Pindar, for Hyginus mer of 412, B. C. , the year after the Syracusan
(Fab. 162) calls the mother of Tlepolemus As- defeat, and arrived with four ships at Chios, late
tyoche, and Apollodorus (ii. 7. $ 8) calls the son in the summer. (Thuc. viii. 20, 23. ) Lesbos
of Astydameia Ctesippus. (Comp. Muncker, ad was now the seat of the contest : and his arrival
Hygin. l. c. ) The Astydameia mentioned under was followed by the recovery to the Athenians of
ACAstus and ANTIGONE, No. 2, is a different the whole island. (Ib. 23. ) Astyochus was
personage.
(L. S. ] eager for a second attempt; but compelled, by the
A'STYLUS, a seer among the centaurs, who is refusal of the Chians and their Spartan captain,
mentioned by Ovid (Met. xii. 308) as dissuading Pedaritus, to forego it, he proceeded, with many
the centaurs from fighting against the Lapithae. threats of revenge, to take the general command at
But the name in Ovid seems to be a mistake either Miletus. (31—33. ) Here he renewed the Persian
of the poet himself or of the transcribers for Asbolus. treaty, and remained, notwithstanding the entrea-
(Hes. Scut. Herc. 185; ASBOLUS. ) [L. S. ] ties of Chios, then hard pressed by the Athenians,
ASTYME'DES ('Aotuunāns), a Rhodian of wholly inactive. He was at last starting to re-
distinction. On the breaking out of the war believe it, when he was called off, about mid-winter,
tween the Romans and Perseus (B. c. 171), he to join a fleet from home, bringing, in consequence
advised his countrymen to side with the former. of complaints from Pedaritus, commissioners to ex-
(Polyb. xxvii. 6. $ 3. ) After the war, when the amine his proceedings.
