Astrabacus

A Spartan, the son of Irbus, and the brother of Alopecus. They found the wooden image of Artemis Orthis, which was stolen by Orestes and Iphigeneia out of the Tauric land, and straightway became insane.1 A heroum of Astrabacus was located at Sparta.2

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References

Notes

  1. Pausanias. Description of Greece iii, 16.9.
  2. ibid. iii, 16.6.

Sources

  • Aken, Dr. A.R.A. van. (1961). Elseviers Mythologische Encyclopedie. Amsterdam: Elsevier.
  • Bartelink, Dr. G.J.M. (1988). Prisma van de mythologie. Utrecht: Het Spectrum.