In Greek mythology, Astypalaea (Ancient Greek: Ἀστυπάλαια ) or Astypale was a princess as the daughter of King Phoenix[Hyginus, Fabulae 157; Scholia on Euripides, Phoenissae 5] and Perimede, daughter of Oeneus; thus she was the sister of Europa. In some accounts, her mother was called Telephassa and her siblings were Peirus and again Europe.[Scholia on Euripides, Phoenissae 5] Astypale was a lover of Poseidon who seduced her, and had two sons by him: Ancaeus, King of Samos,[Pausanias, 7.4.1] and Eurypylos, King of Kos.[Apollodorus, 2.7.1]
The island of Astypalaia was believed to have been named after her.[Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Astypalaia]
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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. ISBN 0-674-99135-4. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
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Gaius Julius Hyginus, Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
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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
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Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
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Stephanus of Byzantium, Stephani Byzantii Ethnicorum quae supersunt, edited by August Meineike (1790–1870), published 1849. A few entries from this important ancient handbook of place names have been translated by Brady Kiesling. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
