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Cithæron in Bœotia was called Asterius; but received the former name from one Cithæron, a [1247] shepherd, supposed to have been there slain.
A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume II. (of VI.) Jacob Bryant 1759
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Asterius and Amphion, sons of Hyperasius, came from Achaean Pellene, which once Pelles their grandsire founded on the brows of Aegialus.
The Argonautica 2008
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Diodorus of Sicily, The Library of History, IV.60 ‘Asterius’, tr.
Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965
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Diodorus of Sicily, The Library of History, IV.60 ‘Asterius’, tr.
Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965
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Diodorus of Sicily, The Library of History, IV.60 ‘Asterius’, tr.
Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965
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Diodorus of Sicily, The Library of History, IV.60 ‘Asterius’, tr.
Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965
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But in a genealogy recorded by later writers, he is likewise the adopted son of Asterius, as descendant of Dorus, the son of Helen, and is thus connected with a colony said to have been led into Creta by Tentamus, or Tectamus, son of Dorus, who is related either to have crossed over from Thessaly, or to have embarked at Malea after having led his followers by land into
The Iliad of Homer 2003
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Asterius, ten cubits long, of which Pausanias speaks.
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Asterius, through no fault of his own, born a monster.
Middlesex Eugenides, Jeffery 2002
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Diodorus of Sicily, The Library of History, IV.60 ‘Asterius’, tr.
Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965
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Alternate name for any of the Greek mythological figures called Asterion. Also a lesser known Greek Arian theologian of ancient Anatolia.
November 9, 2015