Dotis (son of Asterius) explained

In Greek mythology, Dotis or Dotius (Δώτιος) was the son of Asterius and Amphictyone, daughter of Phthius. According to Pherecydes (c. 450 BC), he was the eponym of the city Dotion (Dotium) in Thessaly.^{[1] [2]}

Alternate mythical eponyms were Dotia, daughter of Elatus,^[3] and Dotus, son of either Pelasgus^[4] or Neonus, son of Hellen.^[5]

Notes

1. [Stephanus of Byzantium]
2. Book: [[Robert Fowler (academic)|Fowler, Robert L.]] . Early Greek Mythography: Volume II Commentary . Oxford University Press . 2013 . 978-0-19-814741-1 . Great Clarendon Street, Oxford, OX2 6DP, United Kingdom . 147.
3. Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Dōtion (Δώτιον)
4. Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Dōtion (Δώτιον) with Mnaseas as the authority
5. Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Dōtion (Δώτιον) with Archinus as the authority

References

• Stephanus of Byzantium, Stephani Byzantii Ethnicorum quae supersunt, edited by August Meineike (1790-1870), published 1849. A few entries from this important ancient handbook of place names have been translated by Brady Kiesling. Online version at the Topos Text Project.