InGreek mythology, the nameMedesicaste (Ancient Greek:Μηδεσικάστη) refers to two women of theTrojan royal house:

• Medesicaste, a daughter ofLaomedon and thus a sister ofPriam.^[1] Together with her sistersAethilla andAstyoche, she was taken captive by the Greeks after the end of theTrojan War; the three sisters set fire to the Greek ships, causing the crew to remain and settle at the place they were staying at (either Italy orThrace).^[2]
• Medesicaste, an illegitimate daughter of Priam and wife ofImbrius.^[3]

• naming citation for Jovian asteroid4715 Medesicaste

• Apollodorus,The Library with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. ISBN 0-674-99135-4.Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.Greek text available from the same website.
• Conon, Fifty Narrations, surviving as one-paragraph summaries in the Bibliotheca (Library) of Photius, Patriarch of Constantinople translated from the Greek by Brady Kiesling.Online version at the Topos Text Project.
• Homer,The Iliad with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, Ph.D. in two volumes. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1924.ISBN 978-0674995796.Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Homer,Homeri Opera in five volumes. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1920.ISBN 978-0198145318.Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Pausanias,Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918.ISBN 0-674-99328-4.Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
• Pausanias,Graeciae Descriptio.3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903.Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.

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