AstydameiaHippolyte

The wife of Akastos (Acastus).

Akastos was one of the Argonauts and the son of Pelias; Pelias was the man who had sent Iason (Jason) and the Argonauts on the seemingly impossible quest for the Golden Fleece.

When the Argonauts returned to Iolkos (Iolcos) with the Fleece, Iason’s sorceress wife, Medea, induced Akastos’ sisters to kill their father, king Pelias.

At the traditional funeral games for Pelias, Astydameia became infatuated with another of the Argonauts, Peleus, and made unwanted advances towards him; when he rejected her, she lied to Akastos and as a result, Peleus was abandoned on Mount Pelion to die.

Peleus had been given a knife made by the hands of Hephaistos (Hephaestus) but Akastos took the knife so that Peleus’ would be defenseless; the Centaur, Kheiron (Chiron) restored the knife to Peleus and saved him from certain death.