Astymedusa

"Ruler of the city." The daughter of Sthenelus, and the later wife of Oedipus. She falsely accused her stepsons Eteocles and Polynices of attempting to ravish her.

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References

Sources

  • Aken, Dr. A.R.A. van. (1961). Elseviers Mythologische Encyclopedie. Amsterdam: Elsevier.
  • Eustathius on Homer's Iliad iv, 376.
  • Scholiast on Euripides' Phoenician Women, 53.