Asteria
In Greek mythology, Asteria (Greek: Ἀστερία, "of the stars, starry one") was a name attributed to the following nine individuals:
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[edit] Daughter of Coeus
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Asteria was the daughter of the Titans Coeus and Phoebe and sister of Leto.[1] According to Hesiod, by Perses she had a daughter Hecate.
The Titan goddess of prophetic dreams, astrology and necromancy, Asteria flung herself into the Aegean Sea in the form of a quail in order to escape the advances of Zeus. She became the "quail island" of Ortygia.[2] which became identified with Delos, which was the only piece of earth to give refuge to the fugitive Leto when, pregnant with Zeus's children, she was pursued by vengeful Hera.[3]
According to a lost poem of Eudoxus of Cnidus (c. 355 BCE)[4] by Zeus she became the mother of the Heracles in the form in which Hellenes thought they recognized him (by interpretatio graeca) as he was worshipped among Phoenicians at Tyre.
[edit] Amazon
Asteria was the ninth Amazon killed by Heracles when he came for Hippolyte's girdle.[5]
[edit] Heliad
Asteria or Astris was a daughter of Helios and Clymene or Ceto, one of the Heliades. She married the river god Hydaspes (the modern Jhelum River) and became mother of Deriades, king in India.
[edit] Danaid
Asteria was one of the Danaids, daughters of Danaus who, with one exception, murdered their husbands on their wedding nights. She was, briefly, the bride of Chaetus.[6]
[edit] Alkyonides
Asteria was one of the Alkyonides. Along with her sisters, she flung herself into the sea and was transformed into a kingfisher.[7]
[edit] Consort of Phocus
Asteria[8] or Asterodia[9] was the mother of Crisus and Panopeus by Phocus.
[edit] Consort of Bellerophon
Asteria, daughter of Hydeus, was the mother of Hydissos by Bellerophon. Her son is known for having founded a city in Caria which was named after him.[10]
[edit] Daughter of Coronus
Asteria, daughter of Coronus, and Apollo were possible parents of the seer Idmon.[11]
[edit] Daughter of Teucer
The daughter of Teucer and Eune of Cyprus also bore the name Asteria.[12]
[edit] References
- ^ Hesiod, Theogony, 404ff.
- ^ John Tzetzes.
- ^ Theoi Project - Titanis Asteria
- ^ Athenaeus (392d) summarizes the lost poetical narrative of Eudoxus, telling how Heracles the son of Zeus by Asteria was killed by Typhon in Libya.
- ^ Diodorus Siculus, Library of History, 4. 16.3 (on-line text)
- ^ Apollodorus, Bibliotheca, 2. 1. 5
- ^ Suda s. v. Alkyonides
- ^ Tzetzes on Lycophron, 53
- ^ Tzetzes on Lycophron, 939
- ^ Stephanus of Byzantium, s. v. Hydissos
- ^ Scholia on Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, 1. 139, citing Pherecydes of Leros
- ^ Tzetzes on Lycophron, 450
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