Astarte (disambiguation)

Astarte (disambiguation)

Astarte is an ancient Semitic goddess.

The name may also refer to:

Arts

*"Astarte Syriaca" or "Venus Astarte", an 1877 painting by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
*"Astarte", an 1891 collection of erotic verse by Pierre Louÿs
*"Astarte", a 1967 ballet by Robert Joffrey
*Astarte (band), an all-female black metal band from Athens, Greece

Biology

*"Astarte" (bivalve), a genus of clams in the family Astartidae
*"Astartea", a genus of flowering plant in western Australia

Places

*Mount Astarte, a mountain in the Pantheon Range of British Columbia, Canada
*Astarte Horn, a mountain peak on Alexander Island, Antarctica
*672 Astarte, a minor planet discovered in 1908

Other uses

*HMS "Astarte", a ship of the Royal Navy
*Prix d'Astarté, former title of the Prix Rothschild, a Group 1 flat horse race in France
*Astarte (company), a German software company purchased by Apple Inc. in 2000
*Astarte Education, a Norwegian private school opened in 2007 by Princess Märtha Louise
*Astartes, or Adeptus Astartes, a table-top wargame army of Space Marines ("Warhammer 40,000")
*Atis Astarte, a Therian hero from the table-top wargame AT-43.


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