Astymedūsa, a woman whom Œdipus married after he had divorced Jocasta.
Astynŏme, the daughter of Chryses the priest of Apollo, sometimes called Chryseis. She fell to the share of Achilles, at the division of the spoils of Lyrnessus.——A daughter of Amphion,——of Talaus. Hyginus.
Astynous, a Trojan prince. Homer, Iliad, bk. 5, li. 144.
Astyŏche and Astyochīa, a daughter of Actor, who had by Mars, Ascalaphus and Ialmenus, who were at the Trojan war. Homer, Iliad, bk. 2, li. 20.——A daughter of Phylas king of Ephyre, who had a son called Tlepolemus by Hercules. Hyginus, fables 97, 162.——A daughter of Laomedon by Strymo. Apollodorus, bk. 3.——A daughter of Amphion and Niobe. Apollodorus, bk. 3, ch. 4.——A daughter of the Simois, who married Erichthonius. Apollodorus, bk. 3, ch. 12.——The wife of Strophius, sister to Agamemnon.
Astypalæa, one of the Cyclades, between Cos and Carpathos, called after Astypalæa the daughter of Phœnix, and mother of Ancæus by Neptune. Pausanias, bk. 7, ch. 4.—Strabo, bk. 14.
Astyphĭlus, a soothsayer, well skilled in the knowledge of futurity. Plutarch, Cimon.
Astȳron, a town built by the Argonauts on the coast of Illyricum. Strabo.
Asychis, a king of Egypt, who succeeded Mycerinus, and made a law, that whoever borrowed money, must deposit his father’s body in the hand of his creditors, as a pledge of his promise of payment. He built a magnificent pyramid. Herodotus, bk. 2, ch. 136.
Asȳlas, a friend of Æneas, skilled in auguries. Virgil, Æneid, bk. 9, li. 571; bk. 10, li. 175.
Asyllus, a gladiator. Juvenal, satire 6, li. 266.