Asterio

Also known as Asterium

thumb|350px|Map showing ancient Thessaly. Asterium - under its later name Peiresiae - is shown toward the centre, near Mt. Titanus. Asterium or Asterion () was a city in ancient Thessaly mentioned in the Catalogue of Ships in Homer's Iliad as belonging to Eurypylus. Homer speaks of "Asterium and the white summits of Titanus – Ἀστέριον Τιτάνοιό τε λευκὰ κάρηνα. Strabo places the city in the neighbourhood of Cierium. Stephanus of Byzantium relates that the place was later called Peiresia (Πειρεσία), no doubt from the Argonautica of Apollonius of Rhodes who describes the place as near the j