- Asteria
In
Greek mythology , Asteria was a name attributed to five individuals:Amazon
Asteria was the sixth Amazon killed by
Heracles when he came forHippolyte 's girdle.Fact|date=April 2008Daughter of Coeus
Asteria was the daughter of the titans
Coeus and Phoebe and sister ofLeto . [Hesiod, "Theogony ", 404ff.] According toHesiod , byPerses she had a daughterHecate . The Titan goddess of oracles, prophetic dreams, astrology and necromancy, Asteria flung herself into theAegean Sea in the form of a quail in order to escape the advances ofZeus . She became the island of the same name. Later, the island Asteria was identified withDelos , 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. [ [http://www.theoi.com/Titan/TitanisAsteria.html Theoi Project - Titanis Asteria] ]According to a lost poem of
Eudoxus of Cnidus (c. 355 BCE) [Athenaeus (392d) summarizes the lost poetical narrative of Eudoxus, telling how Heracles the son of Zeus by Asteria was killed by Typhon in Libya.] by Zeus she became the mother of theHeracles in the form in which Hellenes thought they recognized him (by "interpretatio graeca ") as he was worshipped amongPhoenicia ns at Tyre.Heliades
Asteria or Astris was one of the
Heliades , daughters ofHelios , either by theOceanid Clymene or theOceanid Ceto. She married the river god Hydaspes and became mother ofDeriades , king ofIndia .Danaid
Asteria was one of the
Danaids , daughters ofDanaus who, with one exception, murdered their husbands on their weddings nights. She was, briefly, the bride of Chaetus.Alkyonides
Asteria was one of the
Alkyonides . Along with her sisters, she flung herself into the sea and was transformed into akingfisher .ee also
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Star stone
*Asteria (band)
*Asteria (medieval music ensemble)References
External links
* [http://www.theoi.com/Titan/TitanisAsteria.html Theoi Project: Asteria]
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