In Greek mythology, the name Asterodia, Asterodeia, or Asterodea (; Ancient Greek: Ἀστεροδεία, Ἀστεροδία) refers to:
- Asterodia, a Caucasian nymph and one of the Oceanids as the daughter of Oceanus and Tethys, mother of Absyrtus by Aeetes.[1][2]
- Asterodia, a Phocian princess, daughter of King Deion and Diomede, and sister of Aenetus, Phylacus, Actor and Cephalus.[3][4] She was also called Asteria,[5] the one who bore Crisus and Panopeus to Phocus.[6] These twin brothers did not get along, quarreling while still in their mother's womb.[7]
- Asterodia, one of the possible wives of Endymion.[8][9]
- Asterodia, daughter of Eurypylus and one of the possible wives of Icarius.[10]
- ^ Apollonius of Rhodes, 3.241–243; for her parents see Conti, p. 478 n. 23; Preston's note to Apollonius, 3.330 "Asterodea" (p. 168); scholia on Apollonius, 3.242 (Parisian, Florentine).
- ^ Bane, Theresa (2013). Encyclopedia of Fairies in World Folklore and Mythology. McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers. p. 37. ISBN 9780786471119.
- ^ Hesiod, Ehoiai fr. 10(a) and 58; Apollodorus, 1.9.4; Hyginus, Fabulae 198
- ^ Hard, pp. 435, 565
- ^ Smith, "Phocus".
- ^ Tzetzes ad Lycophron, 939; Scholia ad Homer, Iliad 2.520
- ^ Hesiod, Ehoiai fr. 58.12–13
- ^ Smith, Endymion
- ^ Pausanias, 5.1.4
- ^ Pherecydes in scholia ad Homer, Odyssey 15.16