Astylus

A seer among the centaurs, who is mentioned by Ovid1 as dissuading the centaurs from fighting against the Lapiths. But the name in Ovid seems to be a mistake either of the poet himself or of the transcribers for Asbolus.2

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References

Notes

  1. Metamorphoses xii, 308.
  2. Hesiod. Shield of Heracles, 185.

Source

  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.

This article incorporates text from Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (1870) by William Smith, which is in the public domain.