In Greek mythology, the name Damastor (; ) 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.Claudian, Gigantomachia 101 ff. Damastor, a son of Nauplius, father of Peristhenes and through him grandfather of Dictys and Polydectes.Scholia ad Apollonius Rhodius, 4.1091 as cited from Pherecydes Damastor, father of a defender of Troy, Tlepolemus.Homer, Iliad 16.416. Tlepolemus is not to be confused with the Achaean leader Tlepolemus. Damastor, father of Agelaus, one of the Suitors of Penelope.Homer, Odyssey 20.321; 22.212, 241 & 293 Damastor, another Suitor of Penelope who came from Dulichium along with other 56 wooers.Apollodorus, Epitome 7.26–27 He, with the other suitors, was shot dead by Odysseus with the help of Eumaeus, Philoetius, and Telemachus.Apollodorus, Epitome 7.33

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.Quintus Smyrnaeus, 13.211

Damastor, A Dark Fantasy novel by Dimitri Iatrou.

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