In Greek mythology, the name Damastor[pronunciation?] (Ancient Greek: Δαμάστωρ means "tamer") may refer to:
- Damastor, a Giant. During the Gigantomachy, he used a rock into which a fellow Giant Pallas had been changed as a throwing weapon.[1]
- Damastor, a son of Nauplius, father of Peristhenes and through him grandfather of Dictys and Polydectes.[2]
- Damastor, father of a defender of Troy, Tlepolemus.[3]
- Damastor, father of Agelaus, one of the Suitors of Penelope.[4]
- Damastor, another Suitor of Penelope who came from Dulichium along with other 56 wooers.[5] He, with the other suitors, was shot dead by Odysseus with the help of Eumaeus, Philoetius, and Telemachus.[6]
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.[7]
- Damastor, A Dark Fantasy novel by Dimitri Iatrou.
- ^ Claudian, Gigantomachia 101 ff.
- ^ Scholia on Apollonius Rhodius, 4.1091
- ^ Homer, Iliad 16.416. Tlepolemus is not to be confused with the Achaean leader Tlepolemus.
- ^ Homer, Odyssey 20.321; 22.212, 241 & 293
- ^ Apollodorus, Epitome 7.26–27
- ^ Apollodorus, Epitome 7.33
- ^ Quintus Smyrnaeus, 13.211