Astynous

Astynous or Astynoos (Ancient Greek: Ἀστύνοος) is a name that may refer to one of the following characters in Greek mythology:

• Astynous, son of Phaethon (son of Eos).[1]
• Astynous, a defender of Troy killed by Diomedes.[2][3][4]
• Astynous (son of Protiaon), another defender of Troy, to whom Polydamas entrusted his horses before going into the battle;[5] he was killed by Neoptolemus.[6]

Notes

1. Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3.14.3
2. Homer, Iliad 5.144
3. Tzetzes, Homerica 65
4. Scholia on Iliad, 13.643
5. Homer, Iliad, 15.455
6. Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 10.26.4

References

• Homer, The Iliad with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, Ph.D. in two volumes. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1924. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Homer, Homeri Opera in five volumes. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1920. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Pausanias, Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
• Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Pseudo-Apollodorus, The Library with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.