#astian

• Astian — Pertaining to or relating to the Astian, a historical chronostratigraphic subdivision of the Upper Pliocene in Europe (primarily used in the Mediterranean basin to describe marine sedimentary deposits rich in fossilized malacofauna); the term is derived from the name of the city of Asti in Italy.
• Astyanax — A proper name of Greek origin entering world culture through Astyanax (also called Scamandrius), the legendary son of the Trojan hero Hector and Andromache, brutally killed by the Greeks (thrown from the walls of Troy) after the city's fall to prevent his lineage's vengeance; in zoology, it denotes a genus of freshwater fish (Astyanax) in the Characidae family, distributed throughout Central and South America.
• Astyanax — A legendary character in Greek mythology, the son of the Trojan prince Hector and Andromache, originally named Scamandrius by his father, but dubbed Astyanax ('lord of the city') by the people of Troy. His tragic fate is closely tied to the fall of the city, being thrown from the high walls of Troy by the victorious Greeks (often attributed to Neoptolemus or Odysseus) to prevent a future revenge of Priam's dynasty, becoming a universal symbol of innocence destroyed by war.
• Bach — A globally famous German surname, borne by an entire dynasty of musicians, culminating in Johann Sebastian Bach, the genius of the Baroque era, a composer and organist renowned for his absolute mastery of counterpoint and fugue. In a secondary sense, the word originates from the German common noun 'Bach' meaning brook, and is used as a toponymic element across numerous European regions.