Damastor

In Greek mythology, the name Damastor (Δαμάστωρ "tamer") may refer to:

• Damastor, a son of Nauplius, father of Peristhenes and through him grandfather of Dictys and Polydectes.^[1]

• Damastor, father of a suitor of Penelope, Agelaus.^[2]

• Damastor, a Giant. During the Gigantomachy, he used a rock into which a fellow Giant Pallas had been changed as a throwing weapon.^[3]

• Damastor, father of a defender of Troy, Tlepolemus.^[4]

• Damastor, the name of another suitor of Penelope.

The patronymic Damastorides "son of Damastor" is used in reference to Agelaus and Tlepolemus but also to an otherwise unnamed defender of Troy killed by Agamemnon.^[5]

References

1. Scholia on Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, 4. 1091
2. Homer, Odyssey, 20. 321; 22. 212, 241, 293
3. Claudian, Gigantomachia, 101 ff.
4. Homer, Iliad, 16. 416. Tlepolemus is not to be confused witth the Achaean leader Tlepolemus.
5. Quintus Smyrnaeus, Fall of Troy, 13. 211