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.
Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giants_(Greek_mythology)
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Name | Asterius, aka-Astarias, aka-Aster, aka-Asterus (Gigantes) |
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↑1 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giants_(Greek_mythology). |
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↑2 | Barber 1991 p. 381. |
↑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 Asterius, near the Island of Lade, off the coast of Miletus, having bones ten cubits in length, see also Pausanius 7.2.5. |
↑4 | Brinkmann p. 128 n. 194. |
↑5 | Robertson, Noel, p. 42, pp. 43–44; Yasumura, pp. 50, 173 n. 44; Janko, pp. 191–192 (14.250–61). |
↑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; Philostratus, On Heroes 8.14 (pp. 13–14). |
↑7 | Robertson, Noel, p. 42. |
↑8 | Euripides, Ion 987–997. |
↑9 | Euripides, Ion 205–218. |