Damastor
In Greek mythology, the name Damastor[pronunciation?] (Ancient Greek: Δαμάστωρ means "tamer") may refer to:
- Damastor, a Giant. During the Gigantomachy, he used a rock into which a fellow Giant Pallas had been changed as a throwing weapon.[1]
- Damastor, a son of Nauplius, father of Peristhenes and through him grandfather of Dictys and Polydectes.[2]
- Damastor, father of a defender of Troy, Tlepolemus.[3]
- Damastor, father of a suitor of Penelope, Agelaus.[4]
- Damastor, the name of another suitor of Penelope.
The patronymic Damastorides "son of Damastor" is used in reference to Agelaus and Tlepolemus but also to an otherwise unnamed defender of Troy killed by Agamemnon.[5]
- Damastor, A Dark Fantasy novel by Dimitri Iatrou.
References
- ^ Claudian, Gigantomachia, 101 ff.
- ^ Scholia on Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, 4. 1091
- ^ Homer, Iliad, 16. 416. Tlepolemus is not to be confused with the Achaean leader Tlepolemus.
- ^ Homer, Odyssey, 20. 321; 22. 212, 241, 293
- ^ Quintus Smyrnaeus, Fall of Troy, 13. 211
This article includes a list of Greek mythological figures with the same or similar names. If an internal link for a specific Greek mythology article referred you to this page, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended Greek mythology article, if one exists.