ASTERIUS, aka-Astarias, aka-Aster, aka-Asterus (Gigantes):^[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giants_(Greek_mythology). (“Bright One” or “Glitterer”):^[2]Barber 1991 p. 381. A Giant, also called Aster, killed by Athena, whose death, according to some accounts, was celebrated by the Panathenaea.^[3]Parker 2011, p. 201; Parker 2006, p. 255; Connelly, p. 47; Scheid, pp. 18–19, p. 178 n. 48. Pausanias, 1.35.6 tells of Asterius, a son of Anax the “son of Earth”, buried on the island of … Continue reading 

Probably the same as the Giant Astarias named on the late sixth century Siphnian Treasury.^[4]Brinkmann p. 128 n. 194. Probably also the same as Asterus, mentioned in the epic poem Meropis, as an invulnerable warrior killed by Athena.^[5]Robertson, Noel, p. 42, pp. 43–44; Yasumura, pp. 50, 173 n. 44; Janko, pp. 191–192 (14.250–61). In the poem,Heracles, fighting the Meropes, a race of Giants, on the Island of Kos, would have been killed but for Athena’s intervention.^[6]For Heracles’ expedition to Kos see Homer, Iliad 14.250–256; Pindar, Isthmian 6.31–35, Nemean 4.24–30; Apollodorus, 2.7.1. For the Meropes as Giants see Yasumura, p. 50; Janko, p. 191; … Continue reading 

Athena kills and flays Asterus and uses his impenetrable skin for her aegis. Other accounts name others whose hyde provided Athena’s aegis:^[7]Robertson, Noel, p. 42. Apollodrus has Athena flay the Giant Pallas,^[8]Euripides, Ion 987–997. while Euripides‘ Ion has Gorgon, here considered to be a Giant, as Athena’s victim.^[9]Euripides, Ion 205–218.