In Greek mythology, Asterodeia or Asterodia (Ancient Greek: Ἀστεροδεία, Ἀστεροδία) was a Caucasian nymph and one of the Oceanids, one of the 3,000 daughters of Oceanus and Tethys, from The Caucasus. The only account if her is from Apollonius of Rhodes' Argonautica.
Mythology[]
Asterodia being named as an Oceanid is only accounted in the third book of Apollonius' Argonautica.[1] The account stated that Asterodia was one of the wives of Aeëtes, the king of Colchis and she bore him a son named Absyrtus, who Medea killed.
| “ | In one, which was the loftiest, lordly Aeetes dwelt with his queen; and in another dwelt Apsyrtus, son of Aeetes, whom a Caucasian nymph, Asterodeia, bare before he made Eidyia his wedded wife, the youngest daughter of Tethys and Oceanus. | ” |
–Book 3, Argonautica, Apollonius of Rhodes | ||