Astydamia

In the genealogical tradition preserved in the Library of Apollodorus (Legendary Passages) Astydamia appears as a daughter of Pelops who is wife to Alcaeus and mother of Amphitryon and Anaxo; this situates her within the Pelopid/Perseid familial network that features in the background to the Heraclean cycle. A later, modern botanical etymology (as recorded in secondary sources) attributes the name of the plant genus Astydamia to an Astydamia described as the wife of Acastus, son of Pelias — a different identification that the provided mythographic material does not corroborate. The sources therefore reflect either multiple figures with the same name or a modern conflation; the materials given do not resolve this conflict.

No physical, iconographic, or sensory descriptions of Astydamia are recorded in the provided classical sources. The accounts that mention her treat her only as a named genealogical/marital figure; later botanical naming that invokes her name does not supply any depiction.

The provided materials attribute no supernatural powers, magical practices, or extraordinary behaviors to Astydamia. Her recorded role in the sources is domestic and genealogical — marriage and motherhood within a noble mythic lineage — rather than heroic or divine.